H. R. Giger

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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