Contrast Quote by Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that…

— Victor Hugo

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

For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty,

— David Altmejd

To find beauty in the most grotesque things is a gift.

— Seph Lawless

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

— Alexander McQueen

“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the puzzling world…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“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

“Why even try to understand the human condition if humanity revealed itself as grotesque, dark, not worth it.”

— Salman Rushdie

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the…

— Alfred Brendel

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds…

— Henry David Thoreau