Robert Crumb Citas

• You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.

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  Two, Numbers, America

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• Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

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  Song, Heart, Kids

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

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  Revenge, World, Becoming

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• Tu vigor por la vida me horroriza.

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  Vigor

  "Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: The R. Crumb Letters 1958-1977". Book by Robert Crumb, 1998.

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• You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

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  Love You, Exercise, Ideas

  "R. Crumb Speaks". Interview with Robert Hughes, content.time.com. April 29, 2005.

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• Cuando escucho música antigua, es una de las pocas veces que siento una especie de amor por la humanidad.

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  Humanity, Kind, Old Music

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• Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

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  Drawing, Way, I Can

  "The R. Crumb Handbook". Book by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski, 2005.

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• When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

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  Real, World, Come Up

  "'When I was four, I knew I was weird'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• 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.

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  Crecer, Libro, Niños

  "The R. Crumb Handbook". Book by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski, 2005.

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• I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

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  Forasteros

  "R. Crumb, The Art of Comics No. 1". Interview with Ted Widmer, www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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• Al menos yo me odio tanto como odio a los demás.

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  Hate, I Hate Myself, I Hate

  "The man whose muse is misery" by Sharon Waxman, www.washingtonpost.com. May 25, 1992.

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

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  Art, Strong, Gone

  "When I was four, I knew I was weird", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• 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.

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Camino

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

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  Crazy, Stuff, Subconscious

  "STYLE; An Eye for The Ladies". Interview with Lisa Eisner and Roman Alonso, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2003.

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

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  Men, Leader, Want

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )

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  Depressing, Reality, People

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

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  Negative, Aspect, Worst

  "When I was four, I knew I was weird", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• Matarte a ti mismo es un gran compromiso, se necesita un tipo de coraje. La mayoría de la gente lleva una vida de cobarde desesperación. Es una especie de suicidio a medias en el que sólo te embotas con sustancias.

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  Suicide, Commitment, People

  "'When I was four, I knew I was weird'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• 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.

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  Looks, Stuff, Way

  "STYLE; An Eye for The Ladies". Interview with Lisa Eisner and Roman Alonso, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2003.

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• 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.

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  Couple, Special, Lines

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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

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  Art, World, Littles

  "STYLE; An Eye for The Ladies". Interview with Lisa Eisner and Roman Alonso, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2003.

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• I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.

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  Long, People, Stories

  Interview with Steve Bell, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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

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  Real, Purpose, Stuff

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• I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like.

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  Player, Curiosity, Dying

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Cartoon, Culture, Classic

  "Roll right up, folks!" by Robert Crumb, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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