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Quotes from The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski — Robert Crumb

born 1943 United States

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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)

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)

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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Crumb (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.