Absence Quote by Denis Dutton Download Open image “Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.” — Denis Dutton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absence Irony Kitsch Mark Solemnity
For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It's very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
“Solemnity has its limits, it invites derision. But irony is corrosive, it never ends. ” — P.F. Kluge Copy Share Image
Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole. — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was… — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further touch consists… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them… — Jane Lotter Copy Share Image
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
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