Quotes by Robert Crumb

About Robert Crumb:

Robert Dennis Crumb is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture. His work has attracted controversy, especially for his depiction of women and non-white races[by whom?].
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Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

Robert Crumb

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.

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

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

I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It has a good, hard surface.

Robert Crumb

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

Robert Crumb

I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.

Robert Crumb

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

The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.

Robert Crumb

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

Robert Crumb

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

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 ...

Robert Crumb

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

Robert Crumb

You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology.

Robert Crumb

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 scru...

Robert Crumb

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

Robert Crumb

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

Robert Crumb

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

Robert Crumb

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

Robert Crumb

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

Robert Crumb

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Crumb
  • DescriptionAmerican cartoonist
  • BornAugust 30, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionCartoonist; Comics Artist; Banjoist