Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Let's make some funny pictures.

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.

Most of my artwork is geared towards being humorous in some light.

Comedy is one of the hardest genres. You can tell if it's working or not. If the director is convinced of the vision, you have to have faith in that.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

I am one of the lucky ones, to work with comic giants.

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

There's always a message in my comedy.

I try to make a film that's very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest thing I have to offer is my point of view, to get across how I see the world in hopes that it can change the way other people see the world, hopefully for the better.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.