Robert Crumb

Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it…

— 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

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

— Robert Crumb

“Hell is yourself too.”

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

— 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 was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local…

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

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

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

— 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

They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And…

— Robert Crumb

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

— Robert Crumb

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band…

— 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