Robert Crumb quotes - page 2

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. (Robert Crumb)
There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.
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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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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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Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.
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Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.
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The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.
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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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Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.
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The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world. (Robert Crumb)
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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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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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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Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.
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Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.
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What the hell is this?? Who can tell me?? Does anybody know?? How can I find out more about it?? One thing's sure: the human mind can't "know" it...why does one want to "know"?? Is it a quest for "freedom"? One no longer wishes to be a puppet dancing on the strings of...of what? Animal instincts?? Learned reflexes? Programmed behavior?? Ingrained habits of perception?? How limited are we by the experience of our senses, by our physical nature?? To be fully alive is a stupendous struggle! We want the rewards without the struggle--- ---a fatal error! ...No such thing as an easy life! Everybody has a hard time...struggle or die! To find out what's really going on it's necessary to get around the ego..an art requiring persistent and determined effort...Me, me, me...myself & I...oh no!!! Trapped in my stupid self!
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As a woman with a big ass, I've always liked Robert Crumb. Those who are familiar with Crumb's art only in passing will know him for the big, sturdy, sexualized women he drools over in his comics. "Nice big legs!” one drawing reads, next to an arrow pointing to some nice, big legs. Crumb draws himself as a paltry little nerd, sometimes clinging to the legs of an enormous woman, his eyes hidden completely behind bottle-bottom glasses. Flecks of saliva tend to fly across the paradigmatic Crumb page.
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