"When the mouth is closed it looks very……" — 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 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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H R Giger
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20 Quotes by H R Giger
H R Giger has 20 quotes on this site.
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Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I…
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The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my…
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You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings…
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You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different…
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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,…
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The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe…
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The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does…
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Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and…
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or…
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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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My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,
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More Beast Quotes
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one of 880 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
— Diane Ackerman
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
— Aeschylus
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
— Cate Blanchett
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not…
— Daniel Boone
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and…
— Robert Browning
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes…
— A. S. Byatt
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws…
— A. S. Byatt
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
— Albert Camus
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