Dreams Quote by Marcel Wanders

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

— Mike Curran

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

— Denis Dutton

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 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

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

— Karsten Harries

“Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists”

— Milan Kundera

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

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

— Carrie Brownstein

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

— Hermann Broch

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

“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