Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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.

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

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.

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

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.

Our dreams make us large.

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

All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.

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

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

Life at best is bittersweet.

A good commander can beat the odds. A great commander can beat the gods.

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

Homo Sapiens and their guns.

Ideas can never be traced to any one source. They are tossed back and forth between people until the decision makers step in and choose what they think is a success formula.

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

Kid... comics will break your heart.