Categories Quote by Karsten Harries

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

— 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

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

— Odd Nerdrum

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…

— Robert C. Solomon

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

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

To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not…

— M. C. Escher

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

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

— 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

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

— Theodor Adorno

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

— John Bayley