Quote by Don Watson

“Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists”

— Milan Kundera

“Worldly relationships are not true [are not real]; it is a ‘business arrangement’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“And tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Another important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it…

— Paul Bowles

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

“It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts…

— Milan Kundera

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

— Carrie Brownstein

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

— Hermann Broch

“A vacation is external. A pilgrimage is internal. An adventure combines them.”

— Eddy L. Harris

“Relationships don’t come in packages of perfection; relationships come in packages of potential.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

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

— Harold Rosenberg

“Partnership, in whatever way, restricts and limits your independence.”

— Ehsan Sehgal