Gothic Aesthetics Quotes

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff' with a double f - always seemed to me to be about tacky, harum-scarum horror, and I find that anything but scary. That wasn't what we were about at all.

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

I think the Hammer films really made death quite sexy.

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

I can't tell you how much more important watching 'Hellraiser' is to my music than listening to a Milton Babbitt piece or something.

Many of the elements associated with storybook mythology and gothic aesthetics are actually not expressive.

When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.