Grotesque Quotes

128 quotes by 99 authors

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… — Michelle Pfeiffer
The cause of the attack was not American foreign policy but an amoral disregard for human life.It is grotesque to suggest that a four-year-old girl,… — Menzies Campbell
There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I have one aimâ€”the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing. — Aubrey Beardsley
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a… — Chris Hedges
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist… — E. M. Forster
Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has… — Greta Christina
Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say, don't… — Georges Perec
Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health,… — Thomas Bernhard
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed… — Rube Goldberg
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set… — Sri Aurobindo
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… — Corin Nemec
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally
Size without shape is grotesque. — Vince Gironda
There is beautiful in the grotesque. — Guillermo del Toro
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident… — Flannery O'Connor
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance… — Max Beckmann
Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do, — Tim Waterstone
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition.… — Werner Herzog

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