David Altmejd quotes

“For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty,”
-- David Altmejd

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“I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.”
-- David Altmejd

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“Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.”
-- David Altmejd

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“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.”

“The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.”

“I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.”

“For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty,”

“I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.”

“The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.”

“Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do,”

Source : "Tim Waterstone: 'If reading is going be all digital in 50 years, so be it'" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2013.

“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”

“My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that readers only seemed to like something they were accustomed to.”

“George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.”

Source : 'More Biography' (1929) 'George the Third'