Characteristics Quote by Saul Friedlander

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

— Karsten Harries

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

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

— Gillo Dorfles

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

— John Cusack

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

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

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

— Milan Kundera

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.

— Saul Friedlander

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

— Roger Scruton

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your…

— Theodor Adorno

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

— Hermann Broch