Culture Quote by Roger Scruton

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

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 a German word born in the middle of the sentimental nineteenth century, and from German is entered all Western languages. Repeated use,…

— Milan Kundera

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: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is…

— David Hume

In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the…

— Roger Scruton

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

— Frank Wedekind

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

— Roger Scruton

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

— Mike Curran

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

— Carrie Brownstein

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

— Milan Kundera