Dangerous Quote by Clement Greenberg

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

— John Cusack

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

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

— John Bayley

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

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

— Carrie Brownstein

Kitsch is very important to me.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence

— Milan Kundera

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

— Hermann Broch

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

— Mike Curran

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch…

— Matei Calinescu

At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often apes or…

— Carrie Brownstein