"If I am not grotesque, I am nothing." — Aubrey Beardsley

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This quote is filed under Grotesque Quotes, one of 128 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends… — Carl von Clausewitz
• Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily… — Karlheinz Deschner
• There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a… — Mark Twain
• There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum… — Gelett Burgess
• Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. — Mark Twain
• I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to… — Ernest Becker
• It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing… — Albert Einstein
• There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface… — Alister Hardy
• The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by… — Unknown Author
• Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had… — Mark Twain
• Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur… — Dorothea Lange
• That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What… — Swami Vivekananda

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