Execution Quote by Robert C. Solomon

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

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

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

— Carrie Brownstein

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

— Hermann Broch

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true…

— Clement Greenberg

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

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

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

— 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

Kitsch is very important to me.

— Oneohtrix Point Never