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Robert Crumb
Robert Crumb
American Artist
Born: Aug 30, 1943
Always Me People Work World You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
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. Robert Crumb
You Courage Commitment Yourself People Desperation Half Cowardly Suicide Kind Kinda Lead Takes Major Most Dull Just Substances Where Lives
You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try. Robert Crumb
Love Good You Try Everybody Futility Idea Make Exercise Love You Even Good Idea
Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that. Robert Crumb
You Men Leaders Begets Get Want Then Who Violence Violent
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. Robert Crumb
Work Myself Me You First Own Please Way My Own Stuff Like Know Looks Motivates Itself
The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world. Robert Crumb
World Cartoon About Knows Very Little
With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process. Robert Crumb
You Reading Every Drawing Kind Detail Detailed Some Develop Like Look Make Reader Got Comics Want Process Shorthand Average Interferes Actually Flow
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 thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive. Robert Crumb
Angry You Few Relations Back Corporate Alienation Once Out Kind No Idea Propaganda Put Idea Days Got How Am Go America Disgust After Again Public Pervasive Public Relations Filled Thing
Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate. Robert Crumb
You Power Immediate More More Power Pictures Read Lot Text Bunch Than Just Censored Little Even Actually Symbols Imagine
I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework. Robert Crumb
Enjoy Homework Guess Drawing Like Very Much
I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy. Robert Crumb
Type Anatomy Abide Had Female Always Interest
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 it! They all backed off after that! Robert Crumb
Me Entertainment Blame Increasingly Bastards Backed Further Bizarre Sexual Drove Mass Became Sinister Off Moved After Element Away
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. Robert Crumb
Best Freedom You People Think Way Define Say Best Way People Say Absolute Absolute Freedom Over Involved Underground Comics Just Anyone Them Us Standing
I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music. Robert Crumb
Music Musician Visual See Some Between Particular Like Look Always Very Curiosity Modern Banjo Dying Fiddler Interested Really Connection Old-Time Popular Popular Music Player Images
The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that. Robert Crumb
Work Alienated Constant Onto French Reaction Always Traditions America Hold
You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology. Robert Crumb
You Bible Christian Mythology Interested Really Fascinating Fundamentalist
I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality. Robert Crumb
Myself Nature Spiritual Knowledge Reality Somebody Understanding Would Seeking Pursuing Call Which Interested Means Aspect Things
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
Me Made Stronger Draw Drawing Visionary Kids Brother Charles He Always Comics Were His Very Domination Than Artistic Much Actually
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

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