Latest Gary Larson Quotes from Interviews

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• Perspective was always important. There are some cartoonists who can stand at the foot of a building looking straight up and they'll capture it perfectly. And then there are those of us who do the same drawing and it's the goofiest-looking thing in the world. But after a while I guess you just learn what you're capable of and what you can and can't do.

  Gary Larson

  Perspective, Important, World

  "The Far Side of Retirement". Los Angeles Times interview, articles.latimes.com. October 7, 1996.

• I think it's vital to be honest with yourself. You do have to satisfy yourself first. If you're drawing something, you have to ask yourself if it's something you genuinely think is funny. Or is it starting to fall into just a category, just kind of a shtick thing? I think it's important for all cartoonists to be honest with themselves about their own sense of humor and what they're doing.

  Gary Larson

  Fall, Thinking, Important

• It would be hard to get worse. I had only one direction to go.

  Gary Larson

  "The Far Side of Retirement". Interview with Jake Morrissey, articles.latimes.com. October 7, 1996.

• I thought some of my earlier cartoons were not exactly great shakes at the time I drew them. Now I see a certain innocence in them. The humor has a kind of purity to it, I guess. And it works better on some level for me now.

  Gary Larson

  Cartoon, Innocence, Kind

  Source: articles.latimes.com

• I don't read cartoons because I think for the most part the comics don't have an interest for me. There's just nothing there these days that makes me want to go seek them out. I'm not trying to say my work wouldn't have sparked that same reaction from somebody else. There's just nothing there for me personally.

  Gary Larson

  Thinking, Cartoon, Trying

  Source: articles.latimes.com

• Usually when I sat down to draw a cartoon, it would be more of a reflection of things in my past. Or it could be something I had experienced that morning, or that week, or something I might know that's part of my background.

  Gary Larson

  Morning, Reflection, Past

  Source: articles.latimes.com