People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains new stars garish birds freak fish grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

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.

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

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Lapped in poetry wrapped in the picturesque armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

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

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal like the 'Saw' movies.

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.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is to a landscape artist not only a plant - rare unusual ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color a shape a volume or an arabesque in itself.