Interviewer -
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
David Shrigley -
Not having to have a proper job.

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
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
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry.
- Hank Williams
The weight of love
Has buoyed me up
Till my head
Knocks against the sky.
- William Carlos Williams
There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.
- William Carlos Williams
The only realism in art is of the imagination.
- William Carlos Williams
In summer, the song sings itself.
- William Carlos Williams
But the sea
which no one tends
is also a garden.
- William Carlos Williams
David Shrigley: 'More than anything else, I need to laugh at things' (The Guardian)
Q&A: David Shrigley (The Guardian)









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