American - Artist | August 30, 1943 -
Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.
Robert Crumb
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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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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.
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You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology.
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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.
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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.
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I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly.
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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.
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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'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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Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.
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