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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 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. "

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Rich

Time

" 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

" 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. "

Robert Crumb

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Imagine

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists. "

" 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. "

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

Robert Crumb

World

Real

" 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

" 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. "

" People still make me nervous, but gradually over the years I've developed kind of like a public personality, so I can talk. I have my spiel, I have my stories. "

Robert Crumb

Personality

Kind

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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