Kid ... Comics will break your heart.
Interpretation
Comics evoke deep emotional connections, often leading to heartbreak through their powerful narratives.
Jack Kirby's quote highlights the profound impact that comics can have on their readers. Through storytelling and art, comics can express complex emotions and experiences, leading to a sense of heartbreak as readers become attached to characters and their journeys. This phrase signifies not just the entertainment value of comics, but also their ability to resonate at a deeply emotional level, mirroring real-life struggles and joys.
In practice
In a discussion about the emotional depth of comic book stories.
I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.
Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.
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've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal βem. Take those hands.
I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
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