Robert Crumb Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.”

“The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.”

“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.”

“I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.”

“Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.”

“You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology.”

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

“The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.”

“The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.”

“I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It has a good, hard surface.”