Quotes Tagged With :grotesque

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded....

The extent of God’s grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never be....

But if it so happens ... a work ... under pain of otherwise becoming shameful or false, requires fantasy....

The teeth!—the teeth!—they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before....

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal....

We could go so far as to say that it is the human condition to be grotesque, since the human animal is....

Our fiction is not merely in flight from the physical data of the actual world…it is, bewilderingly....

I know, you were much closer to the painter than any of us. In spite of that, your lips, too, will want....

Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?

In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men....