H. R. Giger Quotes

I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.

Titles are relatively arbitrary to me; they take on meanings that aren't really my meanings. 'Sound Of Silver' was just, like, I made the studio silver, and I wanted the record to sound 'more silver.'

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.

In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature for its power to stir the passions and she rebelled before the mysteries of faith just as she grew ever more restive under discipline, which was antipathetic to her nature.

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.

To have a National Endowment for the Arts is to sanction creativity, to provide space to support the poetic, and to give meaning to struggle, hope and life. The artist interprets and represents for us perspectives so that we can question, focus and reexamine our worlds, to imagine the possible and the impossible. The culture and arts of America are our greatest asset.

I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.

Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.

As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.

It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.

Works of art inspire me to compose.

There are usually three sections of people who like my work. There are those who like them aesthetically. They see beauty in the images. Second, there are those who like the horror aspect, which is by design, and I like that. Third, there are those who are moved by the historical or political nature of them. They want to talk about them.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

I've never been one to talk analytically about a music video or whatever I do.

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.