H. R. Giger

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

“You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.”

“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.”

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

“You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.”

“Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.”

“You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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