quotes about Grotesque
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
-- Alexander McQueen -
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.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.
-- Aubrey Beardsley -
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For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty,
-- David Altmejd -
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
-- Eva Zeisel -
I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
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...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
-- Muriel Barbery -
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.
-- Sherwood Anderson -
Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do,
-- Tim WaterstoneSource : "Tim Waterstone: 'If reading is going be all digital in 50 years, so be it'" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2013.
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Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
-- Walter Gropius -
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.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
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.
-- Kim Hyesoon -
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
-- E. C. BentleySource : 'More Biography' (1929) 'George the Third'
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