Alive Quote by Gillo Dorfles

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

— Michael Craig-Martin

“Because each work of art originates in the mind and feelings of a human being, it reaches its destination in the mind and feelings…

— George Heard Hamilton

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

— John Ashbery

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time…

— Erich Fromm

At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask why this…

— Gillo Dorfles

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

— Gillo Dorfles

Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was…

— Milan Kundera

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

— John Bayley

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

If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

— Charles Jencks

The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant…

— Clement Greenberg

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long…

— Martin Filler

Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,…

— Slavoj Žižek

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

— Balthus