181 Quotes by Jack Kirby

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.

Life at best is bittersweet.

Homo Sapiens and their guns.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.