As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved...… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing.… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything. — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they're almost never photos that I've taken. — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew in Sacramento… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
