Quotes by H. R. Giger - Page 1

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
H. R. Giger / Painter
Pain
Talent
Discover
Ground
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
H. R. Giger / Painter
Upside Down
Upside
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Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
H. R. Giger / Painter
Horrible
Terrible
People Sometimes See
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
H. R. Giger / Painter
Beauty
Hope
Kind
Looks
Somewhere
Look
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The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
H. R. Giger / Painter
Boy
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My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.
H. R. Giger / Painter
Crazy
Painting
People
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A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.
H. R. Giger / Painter
Crazy
People
Thinking
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I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
H. R. Giger / Painter
Painter
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To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.
H. R. Giger / Painter
Artist
Life Is
Pay
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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 / Painter
Art
Curves
Elegance
Foreground
Lines
Curve
Line
Nouveau
Stretched
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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 / Painter
Cards
Deck
Different
Presentation
Tarot
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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 / Painter
Dutch
Earth
Thinking
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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 / Painter
Blood
Depressing
Emphasis
Overcrowding
Pessimistic
Strange
Thinking
Beings
People Say
Some People
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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 / Painter
Curious
Deeper
Kind
Mystery
Painting
Analyzed
Meanings
Paintings
Turned
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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 / Painter
Building
Function
Integrated
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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 / Painter
Finished
Ideas
Paint
People
Reality
Together
Show
Maybe
Perhaps
Several
Some People
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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 / Painter
Beautiful
Brain
Looks
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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 / Painter
Busy
Fantasy
Little Bit
Too Much
Akron
Carefully
Studying
Text
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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 / Painter
Age
Beautiful
Reality
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The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.
H. R. Giger / Painter
Design
Father
Giving
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