Aesthetic Quote by Hermann Broch Download Open image “Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical” — Hermann Broch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aesthetic Beauty Ethical Kitsch Shortcomings
The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful." — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying. — Matei Calinescu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.) — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share
“IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they saw him… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.” — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Orpheus chose to be the leader of mankind. Ah, not even Orpheus had attained such a goal, not even his immortal greatness had justified… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“It is as if Protestantism by clinging to the Scripture wished to preserve the last faint echoes of God’s Word in a world that… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“WAS THERE STILL SOMETHING MURMURING? WAS IT still the kind murmuring of Plotius, protecting and kind and strong? oh, Plotius, oh, that it might… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“it is always he, unfortunate wretch, who assumes the rôle of executioner in the process of value-disintegration, and on the day when the trumpets… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Driven by that extraordinary oppression which falls on every human being when, childhood over, he begins to divine that he is fated to go… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
I don't think I was ever thinking critically about my aesthetic, I think it's enough when you're little just to understand that you can… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed'… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account. — John Maus Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
