Difficulty Quote by Clement Greenberg

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

— Roger Scruton

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more…

— John French Sloan

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

— Odd Nerdrum

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

— Odd Nerdrum

The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself…

— Thomas Wolfe

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

To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being…

— Denis Dutton

The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards;…

— Hermann Broch

In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result,but…

— Henry David Thoreau

The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or…

— Sarah Bernhardt

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