Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.
Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious life--Christ was the only man from whom she might expect embrace in return.
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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.
