Character Quote by Susan Neiman

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

— Hermann Broch

“Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists”

— Milan Kundera

“It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts…

— Milan Kundera

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to…

— Paul Farmer

“in a people whose moral code is so lax, so little is wrong.”

— Gregory Maguire

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

— Carrie Brownstein

“How do you… I don’t know… always see things in the right light? Why is your moral compass so much better than mine?”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Karsten Harries

“Knowing what's moral is easy, acting on it is the difficult part.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence

— Milan Kundera