"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."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Gary Larson

#Silly Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it”
“In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.”

Source : "Spectres of Sarajevo" by Janine di Giovanni, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.
“My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.”
“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”
“Victory is freedom of mind and body.' I believe that is true. I would go further and say that victory is freedom of mind from body. Separation from the thing that imprisons us. Flight. Perhaps freedom from life itself. That is victory. Life is brutal. It is like this whip and these ropes. It hurts. It scars. But we must take it.”

Source : Douglas Clegg (2004). “The Machinery of Night”
“Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.”
“A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.”

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