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. – 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 things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future. – 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
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work. – H. R. Giger
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. – 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 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. – 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 normal Tarot deck, no? – H. R. Giger