I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way. Jack Kirby More Quotes by Jack Kirby More Quotes From Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby tools want men Kid ... Comics will break your heart. Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby self men art Our dreams make us large. Jack Kirby our-dreams dream I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. Jack Kirby accomplish men thinking Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa. Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby home men art If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands. Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby suffering men lying Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything. Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby 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. Jack Kirby elements character All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to. Jack Kirby capability humans want
