Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system. — Hermann Broch Art Copy Share Image
“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.” — Hermann Broch Child Copy Share Image
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. — Hermann Broch Books Copy Share Image
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. — Hermann Broch Gone 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
“IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they… — Hermann Broch Old man Copy Share Image
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the… — Hermann Broch Feet Copy Share Image
“it is always he, unfortunate wretch, who assumes the rôle of executioner in the process of value-disintegration, and on the day when… — Hermann Broch Executioner Copy Share Image
“It is almost a matter of no account how far Marguerite will penetrate, whether she will ever be brought back or whether… — Hermann Broch 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 Crazy Copy Share Image
“… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance,… — Hermann Broch Death Copy Share Image
“WAS THERE STILL SOMETHING MURMURING? WAS IT still the kind murmuring of Plotius, protecting and kind and strong? oh, Plotius, oh, that… — Hermann Broch Murmuring Copy Share Image
“It is as if Protestantism by clinging to the Scripture wished to preserve the last faint echoes of God’s Word in a… — Hermann Broch Fear Copy Share Image
“...he knew of the innermost danger of all artists, he knew the utter loneliness of the man destined to be an artist,… — Hermann Broch Art Copy Share Image
“Driven by that extraordinary oppression which falls on every human being when, childhood over, he begins to divine that he is fated… — Hermann Broch Death Copy Share Image
“Orpheus chose to be the leader of mankind. Ah, not even Orpheus had attained such a goal, not even his immortal greatness… — Hermann Broch Art Copy Share Image
You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch. — Hermann Broch Art Copy Share Image
“...in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.” — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical — Hermann Broch Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. — Hermann Broch Sea Copy Share Image
“As she wanders along the river like this, one hand on her hip and the other clutching a mark to defray her… — Hermann Broch River Copy Share Image
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight… — Hermann Broch Believe 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 Children 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 Academic Copy Share Image
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. — Hermann Broch Hope Copy Share Image
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul… — Hermann Broch Become rich Copy Share Image
Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly… — Hermann Broch Hate Copy Share Image
While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . . — Hermann Broch Hate 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 Age 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 Aesthetic Copy Share Image
The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is… — Hermann Broch Autonomy Copy Share Image
“when the great intolerance of faith was lost, the secular robe of office had to supplant the sacred one, and society had… — Hermann Broch Certainty Copy Share Image
