Kitsch Quote by Robert C. Solomon

“Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic," Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.”

— John Irving

“With all due respect, Ms. Embers,” Mr. Bradshaw started, and I couldn’t help but notice how he emphasized the word due, “I’m quite disappointed.…

— Maya Bode

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

— Gillo Dorfles

The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the…

— Jon Landau

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

— Robert C. Solomon

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

— Robert C. Solomon

High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation…

— Robert C. Solomon

The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant…

— Clement Greenberg

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

— Balthus

Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,…

— Slavoj Žižek

Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was…

— Milan Kundera

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long…

— Martin Filler