Giger Quotes & Sayings

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

I remember being a 12 year old art kid and feeling like there was no exciting art movement happening, especially for somebody like me. I was looking around for artistic inspiration and could find nothing - until my older brother's friend brought a Giger book over to the house. Upon seeing the first image I knew I would never be the same. A whole new world opened up to me and I have been exploring it ever since. It's no doubt that I would not be here today, doing what I do, without his influence. H.R. Giger is the king of the Dark Art movement. — Chet Zar

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

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

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

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

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

To this day, H.R. Giger's work remains distinctive in every sense. He is frighteningly unique. — Keith Emerson

Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going. — Timothy Leary

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 don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know? — H.R. Giger

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

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

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel. — H.R. Giger

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings. — H.R. Giger

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

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain. — H.R. Giger

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

No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around. — H.R. Giger

The only one that's appeared in my dreams is the one from Aliens. H.R. Giger's version of that Necronom was almost like a tic. It's reptilian. That creature is like a baby and tic combined. It's very frightening. It scared the hell out of me, it really did. — Lance Henriksen

Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies.
Timothy Leary — H.R. Giger

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