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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.
David Shrigley Quotes: I'm definitely not an outsider
I guess I must just be obsessed with death. Apparently you think about it a lot more as you get older. Maybe you could chart how when I was in my 20s I talked about sex all the time, and in my 40s it's just death.
David Shrigley Quotes: I guess I must just
Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.
David Shrigley Quotes: Sometimes commercial galleries ask for
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.
David Shrigley Quotes: The work, I suppose, is
I think circumstance plays a big part in terms of what I do. For example, if I wasn't ever able to show in an art gallery I probably wouldn't really make very much sculpture. But I've had the opportunity to show in big spaces, so I want to fill up that space in the same way you might want to fill up a page.
David Shrigley Quotes: I think circumstance plays a
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.
David Shrigley Quotes: I don't like theorizing about
I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.
David Shrigley Quotes: I don't want to just
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.
David Shrigley Quotes: I'm not pretending to be
I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly random drawings into something that makes a vague narrative sense. Sometimes it sort of makes sense, sometimes it doesn't.
David Shrigley Quotes: I like making books but
I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.
David Shrigley Quotes: I don't really want to
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.
David Shrigley Quotes: I'm never really that worried
It feels like it's been a long day but it isn't even lunch time yet.
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I don't draw every day. I tend to draw intensely during certain periods of time. I draw to amuse myself on occasion, when I am bored and drawing is the only fun to be had.
David Shrigley Quotes: I don't draw every day.
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.
David Shrigley Quotes: I never sat down and
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