Elevators Quote by Matei Calinescu

“If I'd had a friend next to me, I would have squeezed her arm and said, Can you believe this? - but kitsch wasn't…

— Emma Straub

If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

— Charles Jencks

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

— Karsten Harries

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

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

— Carrie Brownstein

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

— Milan Kundera

“Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists”

— Milan Kundera

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

— Mike Curran

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

— Mike Curran

Kitsch is very important to me.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

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

— John Bayley

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

— John Cusack