“I will not subscribe to the argument that ornament increases the pleasure of the life of a cultivated person, or the argument… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with… — Vivienne Westwood 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
...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles. — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She loved old things. The brown-brick place was a survivor of the 1907 earthquake and fire, and proudly bore a plaque from… — Susan Wiggs 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
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical — Hermann Broch 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
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
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
The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful." — 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
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
Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass!… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
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