The 108+ Jack Kirby Quotes

My Own Son Feels I'm Uncool But My Grandson Loves Me. Being Cool Or Uncool Is A Generational Thing. But As A Personal Thing, I Really Love Everybody In Sight.

I Didn't Have An Affinity For Horror. But I Knew That Commercially It Was Viable.

An Artist Has To Be Humble, An Editor Must Be Officious, And A Publisher Must Be Somewhere Out In The Galaxy Enjoying Godhood. It Was A Caste System, Pure And Simple. And It Was Accepted That Way. Nobody Thought Of Contracts, Nobody Thought Of Insisting On Better Deals.

I Didn't Save My Money For A Lawyer. I Was A Very Young Man, And Saved My Money For Having A Good Time.

I Always Enjoyed Doing Monster Books. Monster Books Gave Me The Opportunity To Draw Things Out Of The Ordinary. Monster Books Were A Challenge - What Kind Of Monster Would Fascinate People?

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.

I Was Happy Because I Made Enough Money To Give To My Parents. I Made Enough Money To Get Married On. I Made Enough Money To Enjoy Myself A Little More Than I Would Have If I Didn't Have Enough Money.

I Like Entertainment. I'm An Innate Admirer Of Good Entertainment. I'll Listen To Mtv, I'll Listen To Mozart, I'll Listen To Anything That Has A Good Element In It.

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.

I Won't Do Anything Bad, And I Resent Very Deeply Bad People Who Haven't Got The Ability, Who Try To Interfere With The Kind Of Work I'm Trying To Do Because Nobody's Going To Benefit From It.

I Feel That Every Professional Is The Art School For The Next Guy. I Feel That Maybe A Lot Of The Dynamism In My Own Work, Having Been Felt By The Rest Of The Artists, They'll React To It And Put Elements Of That In Their Own Work, Feeling That It'll Help It.

Of Course, Mothers Were Very Conventional, Everything Was Very Conventional. You Had To Have Approval.