H. R. Giger
H. R. Giger
Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Gigerwas a Swiss surrealist painter, whose style was adapted for many media, including record-albums, furniture and tattoo-art...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth5 February 1940
CountrySwitzerland
beautiful brain looks
When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a spear... also very suggestive... which penetrates the head with greater velocity, snagging bits of brain. From Beauty to the Beast.
I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
travel
I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
work
No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
people
Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
bit busy carefully funny hear nice problem studying stuff text
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.
I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
different cards normal
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?
beautiful reality age
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
shaking
The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.
art curves lines
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
artist pay life-is
To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.
kind mystery painting
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.