Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch. — Matei Calinescu Copy Share Image
Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it. — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste." — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga… — Osamu Tezuka 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 the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of… — 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
Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by… — Hermann Broch 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
To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is… — M. C. Escher 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
While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character… — Matei Calinescu Copy Share Image
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
Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch. — Karsten Harries 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
If you cut me in half, there would be kitsch and Waterloo running through my veins. — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch? — Richard Strauss 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
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
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
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
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
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