Art Quote by John Bayley

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

— Odd Nerdrum

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

— Theodor Adorno

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

— Roger Scruton

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 the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that…

— Harold Rosenberg

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

— Hermann Broch

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

— Hermann Broch

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

— Odd Nerdrum

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

— John Bayley

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

— Karsten Harries