Forgotten Quote by Milan Kundera

“Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.”

— Milan Kundera

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

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

— Mike Curran

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

— Milan Kundera

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is…

— Theodor Adorno

Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that…

— Harold Rosenberg

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence

— Milan Kundera

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 precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its own ends.…

— Clement Greenberg

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

— Carrie Brownstein