Quote by Milan Kundera

“Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists”

— Milan Kundera

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

— Hermann Broch

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.

— Hermann Broch

“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

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

— Milan Kundera

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

— Saul Friedlander

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

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

“Kitsch" is a German word born in the middle of the sentimental nineteenth century, and from German is entered all Western languages. Repeated use,…

— Milan Kundera

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

— Carrie Brownstein

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

— Odd Nerdrum

“True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.”

— Tiffany Madison