Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal -… — Glen David Gold Copy Share
“We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works," he told Carter shortly after they met, "and that's the clockworks, that's what we build with. But the other one percent makes the clockworks wind down. That's inertia. No one knows how that works, but it does. It's that one percent mystery that's the way of our maker. Put everything together,… — Glen David Gold Copy Share
“He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
“Each piece of the set was on a winch and pulley, bag-dropped, counterbalanced by nests of fifty-pound bags of sand. The setup was called a "Fairbanks," for the reason that when a stagehand so wanted, he could stand upon a knot on the rope, untie as few or as many bags of sand as he wanted, and ride nearly to… — Glen David Gold Copy Share
“Oh, dear God, you don't actually have a brain, do you, it's more a filigreed spiderweb, with little chambers in it where trained monkeys… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
“He thought of the boys and girls who looked for sweethearts at Mountain View Cemetery, and chorus girls who met their beaux behind scrim, and office romances that flourished in the buildings on Market Street, and he felt like there were little lights in alcoves here and there across the city, in cozy dens, in doorways during rainstorms, or even… — Glen David Gold Copy Share
“He had learned to play his instrument with the same joyless precision that barefoot waifs exercised in stoking the coal fires of a debtors’… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal - to seek that motive in Kirby's work was, he suggested, misguided. I happened to be holding the original artwork to… — Glen David Gold Copy Share
“His curse in life was to be attracted to people who understood him.” — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
