H. R. Giger

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

— 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

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

— H. R. Giger

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

— 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

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

— 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…

— 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…

— H. R. Giger

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

— H. R. Giger

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I…

— 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…

— H. R. Giger

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

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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

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

— H. R. Giger

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

— 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…

— H. R. Giger

When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is…

— H. R. Giger

You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too…

— H. R. Giger