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David Shrigley Quotes: The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work.
         

The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work.


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I'm never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.



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I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.



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I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.



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I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.



I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.



I don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my work.

I don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my work.



If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.

If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.



I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.

I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.



I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.

I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.



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The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.





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