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#grotesque

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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.


Camille Paglia


#am #art #arts #because #been

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

My surname for a mask to pretend! I have no stand to protest, but I will find it" (in the poem 'Tatiana Naturova at Time's End' in the collection 'The Green Divorce')


Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis


#humanity #nature #nature

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.


Dustin Hoffman


#grotesque #how #i #i wonder #just

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'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

He pictures amputated human arms flopping like fish down the center of the road; syringes floating on beds of liposuctioned fat; gelatinous human eyeballs wiggling merrily as they roll down the highway; and so on. He could imagine other such grotesque stuff, but chooses not to.


Dan Chaon


#grotesque #limbs #imagination

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.


Ann Coulter


#against #because #both #democrats #down

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.


Tom Morello


#between #bowl #corporate #disparity #each






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