Shrigley Artist Quotes & Sayings

Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard". — Russell Brand

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful. — Mark Twain

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home. — Edward Yourdon

You're the reason I breathe — Darynda Jones

Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around. — David Shrigley

I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy. — David Shrigley

I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed." — Stephen King

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away ... it is fun to be alive at this point in history. — Anders Sandberg

Huh. I'm truly a hopeless case. Here I am, in probably the last few moments of not only my life but possibly my entire existence, about to throw myself into the breach most likely to get killed and maybe even completely, absolutely and utterly obliviated, and what am I thinking about? Sex! I really am a guy. — Phoenix Emrys

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important. — Anna Kendrick

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat. — Thomas Friedman

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work. — David Shrigley

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone. — John Darnielle

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school. — David Shrigley

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors. — Joe E. Lewis

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love. — Cody Johnson

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success. — Steve Harvey