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Jack Kirby Quotes & Sayings

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A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style. — Jack Kirby

The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason. — Jack Kirby

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that. — Jack Kirby

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

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long. — Jack Kirby

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

I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable. — Jack Kirby

It's funny how easy it is to point out other peoples mistakes and make our own mistakes seem insignificant. — Jack Kirby

My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style. — Jack Kirby

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

Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them. — Jack Kirby

Perfectionists are their own devils. — Jack Kirby

When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene. — Jack Kirby

I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields. — Jack Kirby

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler. — Jack Kirby

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style. — Jack Kirby

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

I don't want to take somebody else's beating. That makes me unhappy. — Jack Kirby

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics. — Walter Mosley

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others
almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!! — Jack Kirby

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field. — Jack Kirby

Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval. — Jack Kirby

I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well. — Jack Kirby

Homo Sapiens and their guns. — Jack Kirby

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing. — 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

A good commander can beat the odds. A great commander can beat the gods. — Jack Kirby

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

I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it! — Jack Kirby

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

My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American. — Jack Kirby

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

Our dreams make us large. — Jack Kirby

I give you real world-changers like Homer, Jack Kirby, and the aforementioned Shakespeare as the archangels of pure story. — Bill Willingham

Life at best is bittersweet. — Jack Kirby

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble. — Jack Kirby

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly. — Jack Kirby

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time. — Jack Kirby

It's not letting your anger out that gets people hurt. Its keeping the anger locked up in side that hurts you. — Jack Kirby

I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent. — Jack Kirby

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her. — Jack Kirby

Tell Jack that after he finishs saving the universe again, he has to take out the trash in the kitchen."
-Rosalind Kirby, one day in 1971 — Mark Evanier

Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent. — Jack Kirby

I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best. — Jack Kirby

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor. — Jack Kirby

You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more. — Jack Kirby

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