Robert Crumb Quotes
- Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.
- I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.
- 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…
- 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 classic cartoon stereotypes.
- Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.
- There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.
- Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.
- 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…
- Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.
- 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 with…
- The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.
- Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.
- The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.
- I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.
- The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.
- The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.
- You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.
- The only burning passion I'm sure I have is the passion for sex.
- 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 fifty…
- 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…