Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

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

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

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

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

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

— Balthus

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

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a…

— Emily Mortimer

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

— Roger Scruton

Kitsch is very important to me.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.

— Hermann Broch

A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.

— Matei Calinescu

“A taste for kitsch among the well-to-do is a sign of spiritual impoverishment; but among the poor, it represents a striving for beauty, an…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that…

— Harold Rosenberg