Robert Crumb Quotes
"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
(Related: Bizarre, Blame, Entertainment)
"Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work."
- Robert Crumb
(Related: Art, Work)
"I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist."
- Robert Crumb
(Related: Famous, Revenge, World)
"I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework."
- Robert Crumb
"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."
- Robert Crumb
(Related: People, Courage, Commitment, Desperation, Killing, Suicide)
"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."
- Robert Crumb
(Related: People, Freedom)
"When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate."
- Robert Crumb
(Related: World)
"The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex."
- Robert Crumb
(Related: Sex, Passion)
"Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America."
- Robert Crumb
(Related: Life, America, Contempt)
"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
(Related: Time, Boys)