Art Quote by Hermann Broch

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

The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards;…

— Hermann Broch

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

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

— Harold Rosenberg

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

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as…

— Mike Curran

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

— Karsten Harries

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

— Theodor Adorno

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

— Mike Curran

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

— John Bayley

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton