Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Gary Panter

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American illustrator Gary Panter.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Gary Panter is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician. Panter's work is representative of the post-underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of Arcade: The Comics Revue and the initiation of RAW, one of the second generation in American underground comix.

American - Illustrator | Born: December 1, 1950

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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

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

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

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

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 so original!

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 of the chain, then you've created a different kind of monster.

Gary Panter

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

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

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

Gary Panter

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Gary Panter

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