27 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.