How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole. — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch. — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles. — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions,… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It's very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release… — Karim Rashid Copy Share Image
The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what its about,… — Taylor Kitsch Copy Share Image
The precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
If you cut me in half, there would be kitsch and Waterloo running through my veins. — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious. — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful. — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality." — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
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