Kitsch Quotes · Page 3

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

— Slavoj Žižek

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

— Sting

If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

— Charles Jencks

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

— Balthus

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

— Milan Kundera

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

— Denis Dutton

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

— Mike Curran

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

— Karsten Harries

Have we not huddled in bunkers, while some premonition of tomorrow hung in the air and a comrade started singing? Oh, it…

— Robert Musil

“If I'd had a friend next to me, I would have squeezed her arm and said, Can you believe this? - but…

— Emma Straub

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have…

— Theodor Adorno

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it…

— Denis Dutton

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

— Hermann Broch

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene…

— Saul Friedlander

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

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste,…

— David Hume

In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once…

— Roger Scruton

“It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and…

— Milan Kundera

Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass!…

— Milan Kundera

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

To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of…

— Karsten Harries

The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their…

— Hermann Broch

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

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what its about,…

— Taylor Kitsch

Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.

— Mike Curran

...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

— Steve Toltz

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

— Cy Twombly

How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

— Karsten Harries

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

— Theodor Adorno

A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.

— Matei Calinescu

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

— Mike Curran

“Kitsch and tourism are inseparable partners. Perhaps it is because, by definition, both are inauthentic.”

— Don Watson

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

— Milan Kundera

Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?

— Richard Strauss

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

“True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.”

— Tiffany Madison

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

— Karsten Harries

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

— Hermann Broch

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but…

— Mike Curran

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

— Odd Nerdrum