Robert Crumb Drawing Quotations

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 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.

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

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

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