Kitsch Quote by Matei Calinescu Download Open image “Don't we all have an itch for kitsch?” — Matei Calinescu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kitsch
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
Excuse me, could you help me out? I have an incredible itch that's buried deep in my butt. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
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
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Every Saturday I get a major itch to spring clean and it never happens! — Kourtney Kardashian Copy Share Image
A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch. — Matei Calinescu Copy Share Image
While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch… — Matei Calinescu Copy Share Image
Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space. — Matei Calinescu Copy Share Image
Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying. — Matei Calinescu 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
