H. R. Giger famous quotes

04-17-2025

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
-- H. R. Giger

#Beauty #Looks #Kind
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

#Depressing #Thinking #Blood
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

#Beautiful #Brain #Mouths
You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
-- H. R. Giger

#Pain #Talent
My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,
-- H. R. Giger

#Crazy #People #Painting
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

#Reality #Ideas #People
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

#Thinking #Dutch #Earth
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

#Art #Curves #Lines
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

#Father #Giving #Design
In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealistsâ€”Â 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'â€”can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids
-- H. R. Giger

#Beautiful #Reality #Age
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

#Different #Cards #Normal
A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.
-- H. R. Giger

#Crazy #Thinking #People
To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.
-- H. R. Giger

#Artist #Pay #Life Is
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

#Kind #Mystery #Painting
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

#Building #Function #Integrated

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