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H. R. Giger

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

Artist , Life , Pay

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" There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it. "

Hope , Looks , Beauty

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

Pain , Talent

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

People , Thinking , Crazy

" 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. "

Beautiful , Looks , Brain

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

People , Painting , Crazy

" Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future. "

People , Ideas , Reality

" The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps? "

Thinking , Earth

" I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work. "

Art , Lines

" Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is. "

Thinking , Blood

" The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs. "

Building

" In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids "

Age , Beautiful , Reality

" The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger. "

Father , Giving , Design

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