Formulas Quote by Clement Greenberg

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

— John Bayley

Kitsch is very important to me.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

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

— Hermann Broch

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

— Mike Curran

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

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

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

— Carrie Brownstein

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

— Frank Wedekind

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

— John Cusack

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

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