Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of…

As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.

— Tim Gunn

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

— Rollo May

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.

— Saul Friedlander

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

— Saul Friedlander

Kitsch is very important to me.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

— Roger Scruton

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

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