Art Quote by Carrie Brownstein

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

— Odd Nerdrum

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

— Hermann Broch

Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that…

— Harold Rosenberg

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

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

— David Hume

The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain…

— Slavoj Žižek

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

— Karsten Harries

High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation…

— Robert C. Solomon

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

— Robert C. Solomon

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

— John Bayley

The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts.

— Carrie Brownstein

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

— Hermann Broch