Kitsch Quote by Robert C. Solomon

While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch…

— Matei Calinescu

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

— Carrie Brownstein

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

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

— Milan Kundera

Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison…

— Theodor Adorno

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

— Balthus

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

— Saul Friedlander

High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

— Robert C. Solomon

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

— John Cusack

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

— Bill Vaughan

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing