Robert Crumb Quotes

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

  Robert Crumb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revenge, Felt, Becoming

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

  Robert Crumb

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Strong, Everything

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

  Robert Crumb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interest, Female, Anatomy

• I guess I didn’t enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

  Robert Crumb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enjoy, Homework, Guess

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Courage, Yourself, Kind

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

  Robert Crumb

  Topics in America

  Tags in Adult, Contempt

• I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The s*xual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don’t blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!

  Robert Crumb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in After, Blame, Away

• The only burning passion I’m sure I have, is the passion for s*x.

  Robert Crumb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sex, Passion, Sure

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

  Robert Crumb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Come, Against

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Best, Over

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Weird, Knew

Robert Crumb (11)

Birth:	30th August, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Musician

About

Robert Dennis Crumb known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb—is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.

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• 1966 - Sophie Marceau
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