Giger's Quotes

#1. To this day, H.R. Giger's work remains distinctive in every sense. He is frighteningly unique.

Keith Emerson

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

H.R. Giger

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

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. Let one embrace his own truth and devote himself to its fulfillment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#10. From the moment little boys are taught they should not cry or express hurt, feelings of loneliness, or pain, that they must be tough, they are learning how to mask true feelings. In worst-case scenarios they are learning how to not feel anything ever.

Bell Hooks

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

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#12. 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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#13. You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

W. Somerset Maugham

#14. In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Nelson Mandela

#15. 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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#16. For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers.

Shah Rukh Khan

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

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#18. Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

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#21. Of course! That was it! I didn't need a tattoo. What I needed was something a lot less expensive and considerably less painful. What I needed was a Playboy. Guys who are gay do not keep Playboy magazines in their bedrooms.

David LaRochelle

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

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

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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,

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#27. 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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#28. Hezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.

George W. Bush

#29. My interests are not really with television, per se.

Gale Harold

#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. In the first place, you can't see anything from a car.

Ed Abbey

#33. Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

Lewis Black

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

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

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

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