Gary Panter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you have one person youâ€™re influenced by, everyone will say youâ€™re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say youâ€™re so original!
-- Gary Panter

#Rip #People #Next
Donâ€™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

#Order #Worry #Style
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 so original!
-- Gary Panter

#Rip #People #Next
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

#Order #Worry #Style
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, so you might as well relax.
-- Gary Panter

#Art #Trying #Relax
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

#Thinking #People #Trying
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 of the chain, then you've created a different kind of monster.
-- Gary Panter

#Fun #Drawing #Monsters
People like being alike, joining up, and being part of something.
-- Gary Panter

#People #Joining
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 capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.
-- Gary Panter

#Growing Up #Play #Long
If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.
-- Gary Panter

#Tired #Focus #Different
I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.
-- Gary Panter

#Praying #More Money #I Pray
I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.
-- Gary Panter

#Inspiration #Writing #Trying

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