I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn't have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked 'til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on - it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am.

Jack Kirby

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The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

guy real would-be

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

having-hope character people

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly.

men people thinking

It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

tools want men

Kid ... Comics will break your heart. by Jack Kirby

Kid ... Comics will break your heart.

comic-book heart kids

I began to learn about the universe myself and take it seriously. I know the names of the stars. I know how near or far the heavenly bodies are from our own planet. I know our own place in the universe. I can feel the vastness of it inside myself. I began to realize with each passing fact what a wonderful and awesome place the universe is, and that helped me in comics because I was looking for the awesome.

stars body names

There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could.

hurt lying people

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

literature men art

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

self men art

Our dreams make us large. by Jack Kirby

Our dreams make us large.

our-dreams dream

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

accomplish men thinking

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years,... by Jack Kirby

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

giving men years

I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.

home men art

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw,... by Jack Kirby

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.

men hands thinking

The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.

ladders artist people

I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

suffering men lying

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

universe enough knows

I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

elements individuality character

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

elements character

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, wha... by Jack Kirby

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

capability humans want