Art Quote by H. R. Giger

“To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.”

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

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

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

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

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

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You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot…

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The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his…

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

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

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Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and…

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

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Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

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I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

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