Children Quote by Milan Kundera

Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second…

— Milan Kundera

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

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

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

“It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts…

— Milan Kundera

“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

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

— John Bayley

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

— Milan Kundera

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

— Karsten Harries

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

— Hermann Broch

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

— Karsten Harries