Art Quote by Harold Rosenberg

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

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

— Odd Nerdrum

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

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

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

— John Bayley

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

— John Bayley

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

— Hermann Broch

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

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

— Karsten Harries

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

Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.

— Odd Nerdrum