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.… — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist. — H. R. Giger Copy Share
My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy, — H. R. Giger Copy Share
When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that. — H. R. Giger Copy Share
I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel. — H. R. Giger Copy Share
The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking. — H. R. Giger Copy Share
You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot… — H. R. Giger Copy Share
The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his… — H. R. Giger Copy Share
A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy. — H. R. Giger Copy Share
You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have… — H. R. Giger Copy Share
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and… — H. R. Giger Copy Share
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I… — H. R. Giger Copy Share
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 Copy Share
