H.R. Giger Quotes

#1. I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.

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#2. Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies.
Timothy Leary

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#3. Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

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#4. You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.

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#5. My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,

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#6. In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists - 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella' - can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

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#7. The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.

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#8. The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.

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#9. I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

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#10. There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

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#11. No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

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#12. The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

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#13. When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a spear ... also very suggestive ... which penetrates the head with greater velocity, snagging bits of brain. From Beauty to the Beast.

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#14. Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

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#15. You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

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#16. Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

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#17. A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative ... or they are crazy.

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#18. I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

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#19. You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

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#20. I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?

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#21. To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

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#22. When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.

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#23. You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

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