I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out … - David Shrigley - Quotesmemo.com

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I was always really shy. That's why being in front of cameras like this is uncomfortable. I found that when I was a kid, I would hide behind playing pretend. That's when I would come out of my shell. I would dress up as an old man or something and go out onto the street with my mom. I would come out of my shell that way. So I ended up stumbling into acting. It was the one thing that I found a passion for.

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David Shrigley

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.

Jug, Jugs, Life And Death, Like, Sat, Water

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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 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'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.

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

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