Agony Quote by Robert Aris Willmott

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . .…

— Henry Moore

The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.

— George A. Romero

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

“It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world and see…

— Carrie Brownstein

A show of force is hiding weakness. Real strength is gentle.

— Anonymous

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest sourcethat nature can offer.

— Victor Hugo

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

— Ben Lerner

Art is significant deformity.

— Roger Fry

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Legions of grotesques sweep under his hand; for has not nature too her grotesques—the rent rock, the distorting lights of evening on lonely roads,…

— Walter Pater