American - Artist | August 30, 1943 -
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
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I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.
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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!
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The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.
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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 meanness, our towering disgust.
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Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.
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When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
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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.
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Oh, yes. 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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The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.
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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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There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.
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