Art Quote by Clement Greenberg

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

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

— Odd Nerdrum

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle…

— John Cusack

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

— Odd Nerdrum

On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions…

— C. D. Innes

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

— Bjarke Ingels

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

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

— Hermann Broch

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

— Theodor Adorno

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the…

— Robert Morgan

“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he…

— Mircea Eliade

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