Crazy Quote by Hermann Broch

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

— John Bayley

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

— Clement Greenberg

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

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

— Carrie Brownstein

Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects…

— Hermann Broch

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

— Harold Rosenberg

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

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

While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch…

— Matei Calinescu

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

— John Bayley

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true…

— Clement Greenberg

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

— Hermann Broch