Argument Quote by Zadie Smith

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

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

— Victor Hugo

Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.

— Zadie Smith

For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from…

— Zadie Smith

Size without shape is grotesque.

— Vince Gironda

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

— Flannery O'Connor

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being…

— Denis Dutton

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing…

— Mark Twain

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

— Thomas Keneally

I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You…

— Seth Rogen

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into…

— Soren Kierkegaard