Top 30 Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I was lucky enough to be given books that weren’t top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

2. “Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

3. “One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

4. “Kyle Baker’s work is really funny, but it’s also got a very clear vision.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

5. “But there’s still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

6. “Especially with Elektra, because I’m doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

7. “So there’s kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

8. “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.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

9. “And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It’s an avenue to say what you want to say.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

10. “I didn’t want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

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

— Bill Sienkiewicz

12. “Cartooning is an honorable thing.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

13. “After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

14. “I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

15. “Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

16. “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.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

17. “But I’m aware of the fact that I’m working in a commercial venue where I’m producing something that I wouldn’t normally be approaching the way I’m doing it.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

18. “I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

19. “But with comics you’re reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

20. “So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It’s pushing the envelope. It’s the truth of something through exaggeration.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

21. “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.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

22. “And within the world that you’ve created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can’t be amorphous and changing.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

23. “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.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

24. “Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

25. “If you’re going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

26. “If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

27. “But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

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

— Bill Sienkiewicz

29. “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.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

30. “There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don’t want to work.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

31. “So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

32. “To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

33. “And I’ve never viewed comics as assignments for the client.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz

34. “I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.”

— Bill Sienkiewicz