Art Quote by Odd Nerdrum

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

— Odd Nerdrum

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

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

— Odd Nerdrum

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

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

— Karsten Harries

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

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

— Theodor Adorno

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

— John Bayley

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

— Hermann Broch

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

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

— Walter Benjamin

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