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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

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But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube. Bill Sienkiewicz

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But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression. Bill Sienkiewicz

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But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will. Bill Sienkiewicz

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

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

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After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators. Bill Sienkiewicz

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The world is fine and everything is normal and then, bang, you just get bowled over by the wrathful deities somehow. That happens in very small ways and happens in very large ways when you have a major conflagration in the world. It's another cycle of existence of human beings. Bill Viola

The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment. Bill Viola

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I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression. Bill Viola

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In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made. Bill Viola

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If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights. Bill Viola

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In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one. Bill Viola

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I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used. Bill Viola

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I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint. Bill Viola

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The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image. Bill Viola

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I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner. Billy Childish

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I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it. Billy Childish

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I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters. Billy Childish

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love. Billy Childish

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Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers. Billy Childish

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