Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further.

- Gary Panter

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re…

- Gary Panter

I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.

- Gary Panter

Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again…

- Gary Panter

For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a c…

- Gary Panter

People like being alike, joining up, and being part of something.

- Gary Panter

I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

- Gary Panter

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

- Gary Panter

It's fun to sit down and do a few drawings, but when you have to sit down and do hundreds of drawings whose value only depends on getting to the end …

- Gary Panter