A-villainous-ever-after Quote by Kristina Stangl

“Kit had hardly known Esme for no more than a single day; and yet, he mourned for her past injustices, greatly. For the first…

— Kristina Stangl

The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards;…

— Hermann Broch

“It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts…

— Milan Kundera

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

— Mike Curran

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

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

— Theodor Adorno

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

— Hermann Broch

For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which…

— James Vance

“He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for being too much this and…

— Scott Stabile

“The audience looked at him. They felt he had no chance. They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which he aroused…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Odd Nerdrum

“Kitsch is much more than a question of style; it's a preference for consolation over truth. Disney's version of reality is not just cleaned…

— Susan Neiman