If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse. — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful. — Shahrukh Khan 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
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
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
Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion. — Odd Nerdrum 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
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 power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which… — Theodor Adorno 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 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
The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious. — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
