Perspective was always important. There are some cartoonists who can stand at the foot of a building looking straight up and they'll capture it perfectly. And then there are those of us who do the same drawing and it's the goofiest-looking thing in the world. But after a while I guess you just learn what you're capable of and what you can and can't do.

Gary Larson

Categorized in : World Important Perspective

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.

Gary Larson

drawing silly ideas

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

Gary Larson

animal believe thinking

Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'

Gary Larson

week miracle cartoon

By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'.

Gary Larson

hungry dwarves food

You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.

Gary Larson

sharks water men

It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.

Gary Larson

sheep giving enemy

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Gary Larson

chickens depression long

Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

Gary Larson

glasses house bird

My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.

Gary Larson

missing opportunity blood

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

Gary Larson

money moments time

A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

Gary Larson

beautiful long thinking

The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

Gary Larson

mammals gentleman brain

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

Gary Larson

minutes party should

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

Gary Larson

brain snow giving

Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

Gary Larson

strong teacher school

He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude."

Gary Larson

party names lying

The problem, Mr. Fudd, is that you've been having a sublimal effect on everyone in the factory. We're proud of our product, Mr. Fudd, and there's no company in the world that build a finer skwoo dwivuh. ... Dang! Now you got me doing it!

Gary Larson

proud problem world

Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!

Gary Larson

oil stupidity water

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

Gary Larson

doe tree fall

The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.

Gary Larson

light waiting mistake