Author: Robert Crumb

Quotes

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

- Robert Crumb

You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.

You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.

- Robert Crumb

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

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

- Robert Crumb

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

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

- Robert Crumb

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.

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

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

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

- Robert Crumb

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.

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.

- Robert Crumb

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