#grotesque

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#avoid #boulevard #detours #grotesque #having

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the truths and they were all beautiful. [...] There was the truth of virginity and the truth of passion, the truth of wealth and of poverty, of thrift and of profligacy, of carelessness and abandon. Hundreds and hundreds were the truths and they were all beautiful. And then the people came along. Each as he appeared snatched up one of the truths and some who were quite strong snatched up a dozen of them. It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#grotesque #truth #truths #beauty

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#clothes #collections #everything #expect #expensive

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#doppelherz #golden-age-of-grotesque #marilyn-manson #youth #age

Nothing is more beautiful than freedom, and nothing more grotesque than its molestation. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#grotesque #molestation #beauty

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

— Victor Hugo

#grotesque #means #nature #offer #our

I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#clothes #expect #face #fault #find

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #business #call #generally #grotesque

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#because #christianity #grotesque #more #mystical

I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#agree #away #back #because #been