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" The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world. "
Robert Crumb
Cartoon
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Little
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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. "
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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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" Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that. "
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" 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. "
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" I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy. "
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" Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. "
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" I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything. "
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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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" 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. "
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Game
Society
" The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex. "
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Passion
Sex
Sure
" Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture. "
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Popular
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Child
" When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate. "
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World
Up
Real
" 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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Time
" 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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Street
Day
Fall
" The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that. "
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Hold
Always
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. "
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Drawing
Musicians
Music
" 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. "
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Best
You
World
" You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try. "
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Idea
Good
Exercise
" 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. "
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Life
Drawing
Real Life
" 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. "
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Power
Imagine
More
" 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. "
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Commitment
People
Yourself
" Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work. "
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Art
Everything
" 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. "
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" There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists. "
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Heroic
Investigative
Journalists
" The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff. "
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Real
Bible
" 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! "
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Away
Entertainment
Me
" I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. "
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World
" 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. "
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Connection
Curiosity
Look
" 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. "
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Always
Brother
Drawing
" 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. "
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