Grotesque Quotes

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

There is beautiful in the grotesque.

Size without shape is grotesque.

incurable lover of the grotesque

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

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.

For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

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

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.