Top 19 David Shrigley Quotes

#1. I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

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#2. I guess I must just be obsessed with death. Apparently you think about it a lot more as you get older. Maybe you could chart how when I was in my 20s I talked about sex all the time, and in my 40s it's just death.

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#3. I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

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#4. I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

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#5. I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

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#6. The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work.

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#7. I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly random drawings into something that makes a vague narrative sense. Sometimes it sort of makes sense, sometimes it doesn't.

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#8. I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

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#9. I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

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#10. Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.

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#11. I guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from, and it sort of makes sense and has a kind of profundity to it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.

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#12. The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

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#13. I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.

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#14. I'm never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.

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#15. Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.

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#16. I don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my work.

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#17. I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.

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#18. I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.

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#19. I don't draw every day. I tend to draw intensely during certain periods of time. I draw to amuse myself on occasion, when I am bored and drawing is the only fun to be had.

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