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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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" 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. "

Robert Crumb

Life

Drawing

Real Life

" You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. "

" I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. "

" Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture. "

" 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. "

" Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all. "

" There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it. "

Robert Crumb

Pictures

Special

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

" The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that. "

" I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in. "

" 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

Myself

You

" 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. "

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

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

Robert Crumb

World

Real

" 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. "

" 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

Away

Entertainment

" I oughta be rich. But, you know, if you don't spend all your time looking after money, somebody else will. The guys who look after money, they're the ones who get the money. "