Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest sourcethat nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities. — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind. — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Women all live a double standard, but this is actually sort of a beautifully grotesque parody of it. There's a weird kind… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth?… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows).… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom… — Alister Hardy Copy Share Image
Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight,… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Well, possibly," I said, feeling my lips twitch again. "But maybe first you would tell us why you chose to manifest yourself… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
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