Robert Crumb
Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumbis an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth30 August 1943
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
stuff way firsts
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.
records dollars artwork
I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.
taken drawing people
I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they're almost never photos that I've taken.
heroic journalist
There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.
strong art gone
Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.
couple special dollars
I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.
vigor
Your vigor for life appalls me.
drawing way i-can
Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.
artist people doe
They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich.
outsiders
I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.
boys four sissy
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.
cartoon culture classic
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.
hate i-hate-myself i-hate
At least I hate myself as much as I hate anybody else.
growing-up book kids
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.