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Robert Crumb

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

— Robert Crumb war

You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.

— Robert Crumb god

I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music.

— Robert Crumb time

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

— Robert Crumb art

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

— Robert Crumb men

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

— Robert Crumb world

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

— Robert Crumb love

I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly.

— Robert Crumb art

Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate.

— Robert Crumb power

When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive.

— Robert Crumb culture

I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!

— Robert Crumb sex

Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

— Robert Crumb fear

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

— Robert Crumb art

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

— Robert Crumb person

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

— Robert Crumb crazy

I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.

— Robert Crumb

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

— Robert Crumb man

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

— Robert Crumb good

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

— Robert Crumb freedom

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

— Robert Crumb work

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

— Robert Crumb art

With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process.

— Robert Crumb reading

The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.

— Robert Crumb sex

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

— Robert Crumb fear

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

— Robert Crumb joy

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. Its kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

— Robert Crumb war

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