Explore Quotes by Gary Larson

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.

I've drawn some things that have fallen very flat.

I never have been able to understand where the humor comes from.

The need for an office sort of crept up on me.

With my own cartoon, it was just me being goofy by myself, but when it comes to an animated film, you're working with 45 animators and assistant animators. It's a whole different ballgame.

Taking a solo on a tune is always a little bit scary.

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 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 actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

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.

I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.

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.'

Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.

As for the reasons behind my retirement, they mostly center around simple fatigue and a fear that if I continue for many more years my work will begin to suffer, or at the very least ease into the graveyard of mediocre cartoons.

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.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!

I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.