Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings. H. R. Giger More Quotes by H. R. Giger More Quotes From H. R. Giger There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it. H. R. Giger hope beauty looks A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy. H. R. Giger crazy people thinking You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain. H. R. Giger talent pain 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 brain beautiful looks My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy. H. R. Giger painting crazy people 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 people ideas 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 blood thinking 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 dutch earth thinking 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 design giving father 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 curves lines art 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 age beautiful reality 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 integrated function building 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 painting mystery kind To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist. H. R. Giger artist life-is pay 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 tarot cards The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking. H. R. Giger shaking I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know? H. R. Giger how tell know me No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around. H. R. Giger down never upside-down work I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything. H. R. Giger help everything me mother 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 i-am you busy funny
