Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by H. R. Giger

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Swiss artist H. R. Giger.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Hans Ruedi Giger was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as "biomechanical". Giger later abandoned airbrush for pastels, markers and ink. He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for the visual design of Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien. His work is on permanent display at the H.R. Giger Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland. His style has been adapted to many forms of media, including album covers, furniture, and tattoos.

Swiss - Artist | February 5, 1940 - May 12, 2014

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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.

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

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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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Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by H. R. Giger

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