Robert Crumb Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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 thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.”
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“When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.”
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“I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.”
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“There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.”
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“Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.”
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“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 myself first.”
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“Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.”
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“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 people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.”
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“The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.”
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“Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.”
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“As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.”
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“At least I hate myself as much as I hate anybody else.”
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“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 anyone standing over us.”
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“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 you just dull yourself with substances.”
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“The only burning passion I'm sure I have is the passion for sex.”
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“You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.”
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“The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.”
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“The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.”
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“I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.”
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“The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.”
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“Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.”
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“I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.”
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“Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.”
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“Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.”
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“I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.”
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“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 didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.”
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“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.”
-- Robert Crumb