Top 41 Giger Quotes
#1. Kissing just like she laughs: honest, heartfelt and heartful, she pulls me down as I lift her up , and the hum she gives when my tongue finds hers makes every one of my nerves fire.
Sarah Elizabeth
#2. I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H.R. Giger
#3. Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies.
Timothy Leary
H.R. Giger
#4. 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.
H.R. Giger
#5. 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.
H.R. Giger
#6. To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.
Primo Levi
#7. My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,
H.R. Giger
#8. 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
H.R. Giger
#9. The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
Bryan Q. Miller
#10. The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.
George Santayana
#11. 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.
H.R. Giger
#12. When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going to the mall.' It's all kind of equal. Changing her diaper and her winning a contest - it's all good.
Chris Rock
#13. The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
Laurie Anderson
#14. When we make the decisions to be and stay in love, we should also make a decision and commitment to be supportive.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#15. The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.
H.R. Giger
#16. I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
H.R. Giger
#17. There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
H.R. Giger
#18. No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
H.R. Giger
#19. People of faith, people of no faith, people of different faith, that's what America is all about; it's bringing that diversity into and challenge of the different ideas that motivate people in our country. That's what makes America work.
Rick Santorum
#20. Never forget what you are.
The rest of the world will not.
Wear it like an armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.
George R R Martin
#21. The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?
H.R. Giger
#22. 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.
H.R. Giger
#23. Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
H.R. Giger
#24. 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?
H.R. Giger
#25. 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.
H.R. Giger
#26. It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the way J.K. described everything; she's such a visually thinking person. You can't pass that up.
Mary Grandpre
#27. A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative ... or they are crazy.
H.R. Giger
#28. I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
H.R. Giger
#29. I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're around people who are successful, you kind of feel some type of way like, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer but I do want to be successful.
Eric Thomas
#30. We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran.
Ted Cruz
#31. There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are apt to hurry both into fever.
Charlotte Bronte
#32. 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.
H.R. Giger
#33. Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.
Timothy Leary
#34. I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
H.R. Giger
#35. In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.
Jose Ramos-Horta
#36. How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.
Jean Piaget
#37. To this day, H.R. Giger's work remains distinctive in every sense. He is frighteningly unique.
Keith Emerson
#38. The only one that's appeared in my dreams is the one from Aliens. H.R. Giger's version of that Necronom was almost like a tic. It's reptilian. That creature is like a baby and tic combined. It's very frightening. It scared the hell out of me, it really did.
Lance Henriksen
#39. To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.
H.R. Giger
#40. When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
H.R. Giger
#41. You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
H.R. Giger
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