Quotes by Robert Crumb

Robert Crumb

As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn’t much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.

Book

Growing Up

Kids

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

Art

Gone

Strong

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn’t cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

Drawing

People

Real

I don’t do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don’t like or have no interest in.

Cds

Groups

Musician

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

Drawing

Funny

Homework

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.

Boys

Four

Sissy

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, “Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel.” Novel-schmovel.

Long

People

Stories

I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they’re almost never photos that I’ve taken.

Drawing

People

Taken

I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.

Children

Kids

Theatre

I’m an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

Outsiders

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Band

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Burning

Cds

Children

Come Up

Commitment

Connections

Curiosity

Depressing

Drawing

Dying

Four

Funny

Gone

Groups

Growing Up

Heroic

Homework

Humanity

Ideas

Journalist

Kids

Kind

Leader

Littles

Long

Men

Musician

Numbers

Old Music

Outsiders

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Pens

People

Player

Reactions

Real

Reality

Reason

Sex

Sissy

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Strong

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Quotes by Robert Crumb

Robert Crumb

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn’t cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

I don’t do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don’t like or have no interest in.

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

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.

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, “Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel.” Novel-schmovel.

I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they’re almost never photos that I’ve taken.

I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.

I’m an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

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