Ann Coulter

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.

American Journalist

Melissa Leo

To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter.

American Actress

Werner Herzog

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

German Director

Tom Stoppard

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

English Dramatist

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

German Poet

Corin Nemec

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

American Actor

George A. Romero

The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.

American Director

Victor Hugo

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

French Author

H. L. Mencken

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

American Writer

Joni Mitchell

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

Canadian Musician

Use 'grotesque' to express strong disapproval or to shock your audience.

Negative Connotation

'Grotesque' often describes visual oddity that can provoke discomfort or aversion.

Visual Impact

The term may evoke fear, humor, or pity depending on context and tone.

Emotional Response

In art and architecture, 'grotesque' refers to a deliberate ornamental distortion.

Artistic Term

While 'grotesque' art might be odd, it can also attract curiosity and appreciation.

Cultural Draw

Grotesque in art is connected to history, especially to European renaissance and gothic styles.

Historical Relevance

 she redeems an insufferable grandmother for forgiving a hardened criminal, even as he closes in on her family. Though we might balk at the price the woman pays for this redemption, we’re forced to confront the nuance in moments we might otherwise consider purely violent or evil. O’Connor’s mastery of the grotesque

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 And then you walk into your first class in middle school, and the bomb goes off. You are not just a body any more. Oh no, now you are grotesque. That's when the suffering really starts.

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 I was a child, too young to understand the circumstances of my being there. Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality

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 She helped me get to that point. I was ready. And when I finally did it, it looked way worse than I had expected. What I saw was not cool. It was grotesque.

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