Robert Crumb Quotes

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• At least I hate myself as much as I hate anybody else. Anybody
• I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. Becoming
• 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… Commitment
• I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework. Drawing
• When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate. Real
• Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. Adult
• Your vigor for life appalls me. Appalls
• 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… Art
• In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that,… Brief
• I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It… Best
• 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… Alienation
• 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… All
• In the fall of 1968, I became attractive to women. One day I was an ignored schlub in the street, then suddenly all these good-looking… All
• We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a… Always Drawing
• I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy. Abide
• 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… All

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