Kitsch Quote by Robert Scholes Download Open image “It is possible to call Tolstoy Kitsch.” — Robert Scholes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kitsch
Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
“Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy is not?” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“...Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.” — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“The decrees of society are temporary ones; what Tolstoy is interested in are the eternal demands of morality.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“All writing, all composition, is construction. we do not imitate the world, we construct versions of it. there is no mimesis, only poesis. no… — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned. — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as… — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
