Existence Quote by Milan Kundera

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

— John Bayley

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

— Milan Kundera

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

Kitsch is very important to me.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

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

— Mike Curran

“Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists”

— 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

Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects…

— Hermann Broch

“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

“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

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

— John Cusack