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
Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces… — 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 precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its… — Clement Greenberg 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
“A taste for kitsch among the well-to-do is a sign of spiritual impoverishment; but among the poor, it represents a striving for… — Theodore Dalrymple 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
To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of… — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but… — Mike Curran 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
“True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll. — Saul Friedlander Copy Share Image
“It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to… — Maggie Q 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
Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion. — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“If I'd had a friend next to me, I would have squeezed her arm and said, Can you believe this? - but… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces. — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious. — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
