Creativity Quote by H. R. Giger

Giger’s offhand “you know” is doing real work here: it lowers the temperature around something that, in his hands, could easily read as occult provocation. He frames the event as “just another presentation,” insisting on the ordinary logistics of an art career even as he’s showing an object loaded with spiritual and pop-mystical associations. That tension is the point. Giger was always smuggling the uncanny into the familiar, making the monstrous feel manufactured, almost product-designed. Treating a Tarot deck like a routine exhibition item is a quiet flex: the eerie is his default setting.

The line pivots on “funny,” which lands less as a joke than as a wink at category confusion. Tarot is supposed to be a codified system, a tradition with rules and iconography. Giger’s “quite different” cards disrupt that ritual comfort. The “no?” at the end is classic conversational softening, but it also recruits the listener into complicity: you see it too, right? He’s nudging the audience to admit that what they’re looking at isn’t a tool for divination so much as a mirror for modern anxieties about the body, technology, sex, and control.

Contextually, it tracks with the post-1960s art world’s habit of remixing esoteric forms into commodities and collectibles. Giger’s genius was to make that remix feel both deadpan and disturbing: a Tarot deck that reads less like fate and more like biomechanical inevitability.