Jack Kirby Quotes - Page 5

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• Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.

  Jack Kirby

  Mother, Approval, Courses

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Art, School, Guy

  Source: kirbymuseum.org

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Humble, Artist, Simple

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Mtv, Elements, Entertainment

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/1987.

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Morning, Home, Night

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Giving, Parent, Littles

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American.

  Jack Kirby

  Ambition, Perfect, My Ambition

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Son, Sight, Being Cool

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.

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