Explore Quotes by Bill Sienkiewicz

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to