Past Quotes by Karsten Harries

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

— Karsten Harries

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

— Karsten Harries

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

— Karsten Harries

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

— Karsten Harries

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

— Karsten Harries

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

— Karsten Harries

Not all kitsch is sweet.

— Karsten Harries

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

— Karsten Harries