Advantage Quote by Clement Greenberg

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

— John Bayley

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

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

— Carrie Brownstein

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

— 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

One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is it? When…

— Roger Scruton

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your…

— Theodor Adorno

Kitsch is very important to me.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

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

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

— Milan Kundera

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