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

Robert Crumb

#Stuff Quotes #Way Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only these were gifts from God when I get an idea, but everything I have done that I really love has had a lot of hard work behind it.”
“Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from being distant or "sacred" to being more human, because then I think it becomes easier to feel like poetry belongs to us, is for us, is from us.”
“But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.”
“Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don't tear me in two, but lift me up.”
“The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.”

Source : Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher
“Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.”
“I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!”
“Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.”

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