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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 women were interested in me. Robert Crumb

Day Me Women Fall One Day Good-Looking Attractive Became Were Interested Then Ignored Suddenly Street

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture. Robert Crumb

Culture Yeah Child American Popular Popular Culture

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 much stronger artistic visionary than I was. Robert Crumb

If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money. Robert Crumb

Work Art You Game Money Society Please Andy Andy Warhol Something Like Get Trying Want Warhol Them Then

When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people. Robert Crumb

Life People World My Life Live Paper Drawing Threatening Life-Threatening Had Well Learn Became How Real Itself Very Real People Just Stop The Real World Real World Younger Much Really Lived Cope Consequence

Nature engenders the science of painting. Robert Delaunay

Nature Science Painting

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory. Robert Delaunay

System Find Colors Arise Does Essence Movement Which Theory

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art. Robert Delaunay

Art Alone Man Soul Communication Impossible Birth Else Earth Evolution Give Rivalries Concerned Himself Antagonism Permits Movements Whereby Anything Anything Else Which Decisive Moments Comparison

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. Robert Delaunay

Knowledge World Perception Our Vastness Does Sufficient

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man. Robert Delaunay

Man Vision Light Harmony Colors Which Rhythm Creates

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. Robert Delaunay

Light Visual Without Movement Sensibility Us

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. Robert Delaunay

Problem World Pure Research Painting Paris Ideal Ideal World Know Any Really Moment Who Painters Searching Present Present Moment

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you. Robert Henri

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think. Robert Henri

People Few Think Few People Mighty Who

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. Robert Henri

Natural Genius Will Degree Free Few Everyone Possession Some Faculties Limited Exists Itself Where Manifest Full Play Growth

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. Robert Indiana

Art Exactly Vogue Protest Done Realize Many Paintings

There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote. Robert Indiana

People Better Exclusive Like Remote Much Who Popularity

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. Robert Indiana

Old Mind Before Seventeen Seventeen Years Those Had Houses Always Been Years Different Fascinated Each Lived Twenty-One Number Numbers

When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded the direction I have since gone, these images were always of a very fixed, rigid quality, and, of course, my work still has this aspect. Robert Indiana

Work Quality Gone Painting Say Immediately Rigid Allegorical Rather Direction Shall Since Heads Course Always Still Were Very Fixed Which Aspect Portraits Images

I paint the American scene. Robert Indiana

Scene American Paint

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril. Robert Indiana

Love Love Is Dangerous Fraught Peril Commodity

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