Robert Crumb Quotes

I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge.

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

I don't like to do something just to prove I can do it.

I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody else happy.

It kind of feels good to make something that you're proud of and it's also very real to you.

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.

Doing beautiful things is its own reward.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work.

I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.