Robert Crumb Quotes
born 1943 United States
Robert Dennis Crumb (born 30 August 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb.
- United States
- Artists
- Cartoonists
- Comedians
- Musicians
Also known as: Crumb, Robert
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I’m an outsider. I will always be an outsider.
Industrial civilization figured out how to manufacture popular culture and sell it back to the people. You have to marvel at the ingenuity of it!
The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005)
When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
Before industrial civilization, local and regional communities made their own music, their own entertainment.
The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005)
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.
Me, me, me...myself & I...oh no!!! Trapped in my stupid self!
People have no idea of the sources for my work. I didn't invent anything; It's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.
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.
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.
The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005)
The giant female bodybuilder proves unthinking people wrong who believe feminine beauty can never be harmonious with well developed musculature.
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