Gary Larson Quotes

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.

I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.

I'm inspired by my surroundings. That's why I create dresses or videos around simple everyday things! I also love playing with nostalgic things from my childhood like cartoons. I like my art to trigger some sort of memory from my viewers, something they can relate to.

Once in a blue moon I'll have some sort of concept song or it will be about a bunch of different things, but yeah, it's all from experiences.

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

When we were first approached with the idea to do videos, we said why not. We used the things that we do in our lives in the videos.

As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.

Creating films and photographs through situations that few others could experience is my life's inspiration.

'Heavy Rain' responded to a period of my life, things I strongly believed in, things I wanted to suggest or experiment with. I'm really happy with the overall feedback; the reception was a success.

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.