Top 100 Crumb Quotes
#1. Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn't have a lot of thematic or political baggage - a little crumb that is interesting.
George Saunders
#2. The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.
Robert Crumb
#3. The more personal, revealing and sniveling, the more interesting...I wanna feel like I'm snooping, peeking thru the keyhole into somebody's, anybody's, private hell...no detail is too petty if it's honest...
Aline Kominsky-Crumb
#4. Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb.
Saadi
#5. Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.
Robert Crumb
#6. To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king's whims. If he wants a new wife, fix him one. I didn't, and I am dead.
Hilary Mantel
#7. Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
George Crumb
#8. It's in our nature to be intrigued. We're putting the bread crumb not in your mouth but close to your mouth. You reach a little bit, and that's why it works.
Bryan Cranston
#9. I am nauseated by all these rotten people in Europe - and these fucking "democracies" are not worth even a crumb.
Frida Kahlo
#10. If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
Simon Conway Morris
#11. If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.
Robert Crumb
#12. 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.
Robert Crumb
#13. I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly.
Robert Crumb
#14. Sasha snorted. "I have never in my extremely long life seen anyone take so long to answer a question. It's like you went into your brain and got lost. you need a bread crumb, buddy?" He made a noise like he was calling his pet. "Here Lassie, here. Come back girl.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#15. As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.
George Crumb
#16. I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.
Robert Crumb
#17. 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.
Robert Crumb
#18. There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love ... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#19. I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!
Robert Crumb
#20. I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.
Zoe Heller
#21. Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.
George Crumb
#22. Flesh. The word must become flesh; the soul thirsts. On whatever crumb my eye fastens,
Anonymous
#23. I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.
George Crumb
#24. We ask for our daily crumb of love. We are given a ton for eternity, which is death.
Georges Perros
#25. Meanwhile Crumb Street, never a place of beauty, that afternoon was at its worst. The fog slopped over its low houses like a bucketful of cold soup over a row of dirty stoves. The
Margery Allingham
#26. A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?
George Carlin
#29. The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.
Robert Crumb
#30. As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.
Bob Dylan
#31. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing.
Cormac McCarthy
#32. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.
Peter Ackroyd
#33. I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew in Sacramento - Stanley Something-or-other - to spend a day with me driving around just to take snapshots.
Robert Crumb
#34. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb.
Macrina Wiederkehr
#35. The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.
Robert Crumb
#36. I am optimistic about the future of music.
George Crumb
#37. I oughta be rich. But, you know, if you don't spend all your time looking after money, somebody else will. The guys who look after money, they're the ones who get the money.
Robert Crumb
#38. Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.
Anthony Liccione
#39. I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.
Robert Crumb
#40. Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
George Crumb
#41. I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.
George Crumb
#42. Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate.
Robert Crumb
#43. Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.
Terry Zwigoff
#44. 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.
Robert Crumb
#45. The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.
Robert Crumb
#46. 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
#47. Frank scooted back like the disk might explode. He had an orange-juice mustache and a brownie-crumb beard that made Piper want to hand him a napkin.
Rick Riordan
#48. With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process.
Robert Crumb
#49. I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.
Robert Crumb
#50. Of course he had committed forgery;
of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.
Anthony Trollope
#51. At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two ... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.
John Cheever
#52. He found himself playing the love-sick fool vying for a crumb of attention or approval from Genevieve. Anything to make her smile. Make her happy. He'd give her the damn moon if that was what it took.
Maya Banks
#54. 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.
Robert Crumb
#56. 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.
Robert Crumb
#57. When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive.
Robert Crumb
#58. You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology.
Robert Crumb
#60. The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
George Crumb
#61. Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
Robert Crumb
#62. Without standards, you end up accepting any morsel of paying work that comes your way, like a hungry mouse devours a crumb. You remain stuck in that gut-tightening, demoralizing position of doing work you despise, for clients you don't like, just because you need the money.
Pete Savage
#64. The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
George Crumb
#65. Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.
George Crumb
#67. In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
George Crumb
#68. I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.
Chester Brown
#69. Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
Wallace Stevens
#70. When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.
Robert Crumb
#71. I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.
Robert Crumb
#72. People will knife you in the back for a stinking crumb and then go on with their lives as if you're nothing but a worthless roach. (Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#73. Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm, right out of the oven. I mean, what more could anyone want? And all you're doing is taking the best fruit of the season, putting a crumb topping on it and putting it in the oven.
Tom Douglas
#74. Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
George Crumb
#75. I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.
Robert Crumb
#76. Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.
George Crumb
#77. Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.
Joe Sacco
#78. I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.
George Crumb
#79. The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
George Crumb
#80. 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.
Robert Crumb
#81. 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
#82. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
Charles Dickens
#83. The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
Abraham Lincoln
#84. God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.
Emily Dickinson
#85. When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people.
Robert Crumb
#86. 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.
Robert Crumb
#87. If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
George Crumb
#88. I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.
George Crumb
#89. One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
George Crumb
#90. There is a pervasive myth that shortbread should never bake to the point of browning. I want to persuade you that a golden tint is not only okay but preferable. The buttery flavor will become more pronounced with a bit of color, and that is as essential an element to shortbread as its friable crumb.
Elisabeth Prueitt
#91. When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
Robert Crumb
#92. Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don't benefit from their crumb.
Sue Gardner
#93. I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.
Henry Miller
#94. Face falling, her sister pushed a crumb around her plate. 'I feel dumb now. I shouldn't have called you - I know you must be sad and busy because of the Falling.' She squashed the crumb, staring at it as if it were the most important thing on the planet.
Nalini Singh
#95. Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.
Robert Crumb
#96. I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
Robert Crumb
#97. The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
Eric Hoffer
#98. You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.
Robert Crumb
#99. I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.
Robert Crumb
#100. If I shouldn't be alive
When the Robins come,
Give the one in Red Cravat,
A Memorial crumb.
Emily Dickinson
