Famous quotes containing the word domesticate:
“After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)