Robert Crumb Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.”

“The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.”

“There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.”

“Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.”

“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.”

“The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.”