Not all kitsch is sweet.

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

— Karsten Harries

How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

— Karsten Harries

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

— Karsten Harries

To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of bad art…

— Karsten Harries

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

— Karsten Harries

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

— Karsten Harries

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

— Karsten Harries

The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant…

— Clement Greenberg

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

— Balthus

Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,…

— Slavoj Žižek

Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was…

— Milan Kundera

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long…

— Martin Filler

If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

— Charles Jencks

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being…

— Denis Dutton

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

— John Bayley