Grotesque Quotes

128 Grotesque quotes by 99 unique authors

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… — George A. Romero
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of… — Walt Whitman
If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes. — Michael Jackson
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind. — Eva Zeisel
This is the golden age of grotesque. — Marilyn Manson
My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the… — Ian Hornak
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant,… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius
It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract… — Walter J. Phillips
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. — Alfred Brendel
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or… — Ann Coulter
I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies. — Amber Heard
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… — Dustin Hoffman
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. — Victor Hugo
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an… — Soren Kierkegaard
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. — Alexander McQueen
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit… — Alexander McQueen
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. — H. L. Mencken
The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have… — Tom Morello
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often… — Camille Paglia
Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind… — Camille Paglia
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… — John Ruskin
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque. — Ron Wyden

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