Robert Crumb

“Hell is yourself too.”

— Robert Crumb

At least I hate myself as much as I hate anybody else.

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

— Robert Crumb

I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

— Robert Crumb

People still make me nervous, but gradually over the years I've developed kind of like a public personality, so I can talk.…

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they're almost never photos that I've taken.

— Robert Crumb

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

You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting…

— Robert Crumb

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved...…

— Robert Crumb

I oughta be rich. But, you know, if you don't spend all your time looking after money, somebody else will. The guys…

— Robert Crumb

I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with…

— Robert Crumb

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…

— Robert Crumb

When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As…

— 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…

— Robert Crumb

Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations…

— Robert Crumb

In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and…

— Robert Crumb

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…

— Robert Crumb

I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards…

— Robert Crumb

I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15…

— Robert Crumb

They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had…

— Robert Crumb

Some things I won't do for any amount of money. That's so demoralizing and goes against every principle that I hold. It's…

— Robert Crumb

“Everything we do has significance. Every action, every thought leaves an imprint - not only on the self, but on the world,…

— Robert Crumb

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink…

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He…

— Robert Crumb

You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology.

— Robert Crumb