Grotesque Quotes
Grotesque Quote of the day
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of?
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.
I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.
Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.
I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?
one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul
Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do.