People Quotes by Robert Crumb

Robert Crumb

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn’t cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

Drawing

People

Real

Robert Crumb

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

Long

People

Stories

Robert Crumb

I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they’re almost never photos that I’ve taken.

Drawing

People

Taken

Robert Crumb

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It’s kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Commitment

People

Suicide

Robert Crumb

Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn’t do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn’t cater to them.

People

Reason

Thinking

Robert Crumb

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. )

Depressing

People

Reality

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People Quotes by Robert Crumb

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn’t cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

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

I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they’re almost never photos that I’ve taken.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It’s kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn’t do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn’t cater to them.

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