Quotes from David Shrigley

Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.

Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.

It feels like it's been a long day but it isn't even lunch time yet.

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.

I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.

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.

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.

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 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 feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

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.

I think the thing is there's a work for every space, you always have to respond to a context, whether it be a physical context, or a political one, or a cultural one, whatever.

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.

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.