Words matter. These are the best Gary Larson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, ‘They’re just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don’t.’ Gee, I sound shallow. But I don’t react to current events or other stimuli. I don’t read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
Sometimes I’m convinced that one day I’m going to draw the cartoon that offends everyone, and that’ll be the end.
You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It’s like that.
On Career Day in high school, you don’t walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
If I didn’t understand a cartoon in a newspaper, I’d just turn the page.
A lot of people think I’m going to be like someone who’s stepped out of one of his own cartoons. And maybe I am. But I sure have a hard time analyzing it.
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn’t be sustained indefinitely. That’s why I pulled the plug on that one after the ’02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
I keep thinking someone’s gonna show up and say, ‘There’s been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here’s your shovel.’
I’m not into cartoons. That’s the irony of it.
I’ve always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.
A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.
I didn’t want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn’t know what you did with a bachelor’s in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.
You can get away with a lot as long as it has a silly edge to it.
I think I’m maintaining the quality, but internally I’m paying for it.
Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
I’ve always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
I remember one time watching a bird snatch a dragonfly out of midair and thinking, ‘Gee, life can come to an end – crunch! – just like that.’
Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it’s ‘Here we go again.’
I love parasites! I can’t get enough of them.
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
This was more than just a cow – this was an entire career I was looking at.
I didn’t realize I was working in a family medium.
Taking a solo on a tune is always a little bit scary.
I didn’t feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I’d stop.
My first month in syndication, I made about $100. I thought it would be exciting if I ever got up to the level where I could pay my rent.
I’ve drawn some things that have fallen very flat.
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
The need for an office sort of crept up on me.
As a kid I used to raise snakes. Obviously, my social life was a bit down at the time. But it took me a while to realise that with an interest like that people are going to think there’s something wrong with you.
