Art Quote by Mike Curran

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

— Theodor Adorno

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

— Odd Nerdrum

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

— Odd Nerdrum

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

— John Bayley

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

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

— Roger Scruton

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

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

— Eugene Delacroix

Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like…

— Eugene Delacroix

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 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

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

— Hermann Broch