Quotes Tagged With :grotesque

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

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

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

O sleep! ridiculous mystery which makes faces appear so grotesque, you are the revealer of human ugliness.....

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

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

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

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

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

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