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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

Power

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

" Oh, yes. 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. "

Robert Crumb

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" 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. "

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

Robert Crumb

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

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

" Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists. "

" 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 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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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