Gary Panter quotes:

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!