We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles. — 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
Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole. — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts. — Carrie Brownstein 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
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 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
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 work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch. — Karsten Harries 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often… — Carrie Brownstein 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
“Kitsch" is a German word born in the middle of the sentimental nineteenth century, and from German is entered all Western languages.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask… — Gillo Dorfles 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
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
“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
“I love trash. I have never believed that kitsch kills. I tell you this, so you will understand that my antipathy toward… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
