Kitsch Quote by Karsten Harries Download Open image “Not all kitsch is sweet.” — Karsten Harries ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kitsch Sweet
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 is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it. — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
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 of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion. — Milan Kundera 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
We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles. — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of bad art… — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch. — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces. — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a… — Emily Mortimer 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
