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 m…

- David Shrigley

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

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 …

- 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.

- David Shrigley

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.

- David Shrigley

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

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 institut…

- David Shrigley

I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay abou…

- David Shrigley

I guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from, and it sort of makes sense and has…

- David Shrigley