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

--

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

Robert Crumb

#Negative Quotes #Aspect Quotes #Worst Quotes

“After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world, it's assuring to come home to a place you know. God can be equally familiar to you. With time you can learn where to go for nourishment, where to hide for protection , where to turn for guidance. Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.”
“I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it.”
“As a designer and someone that likes getting my hands dirty, it's hard. It's a competition. I can't give too much away. One thing I could do was offer encouraging words.”
“It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not just the sound, but the emotion, the technique of the singing.”
“All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.”

Source : Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee
“In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help. . . . No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.”

Source : "The Ecology of Human Development".
“Love is something, if you give it away, you end up having more.”
“Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, â€œI should make that call", but I put it off. Because thereâ€™s something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so itâ€™s not that. But sometimes it can be nice. Itâ€™s not like I sit here philosophizing, because Iâ€™ve no talent for that. Itâ€™s just this thing about silence thatâ€™s so wonderful.”

You may also like:

Art Spiegelman
Cartoonist
Charles Bukowski
Poet
Daniel Clowes
Cartoonist
David Lynch
Film director
Harvey Pekar
Film writer
Jack Kirby
Artist
Ralph Bakshi
Animator
Terry Zwigoff
Filmmaker
Will Eisner
Cartoonist