The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

“She wants him to become enchanted, to enter so deeply into her distress that his view of the world is changed and the insult…

— Christine Wicker

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to…

— Wendell Berry

It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the…

— Bob Iger

When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you…

— Kevin Plank

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

— Karsten Harries

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

— Karsten Harries

Not all kitsch is sweet.

— 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

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

— Karsten Harries

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

— John Bayley

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

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

— Charles Jencks