H. R. Giger quotes
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“There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.”
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“My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,”
-- H. R. GigerSource : "Alien Artist H.R. Giger Passes Away at Age 74" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 13, 2014.
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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.”
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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?”
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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.”
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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. GigerSource : Letter to 20th Century Fox, theoldreader.com. November 13, 1997.
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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”
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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?”
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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. GigerSource : "Alien Artist H.R. Giger Passes Away at Age 74" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 13, 2014.
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“To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.”
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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.”
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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
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