Aesthetic Quote by Theodor Adorno

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

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

— Denis Dutton

“Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists”

— Milan Kundera

The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards;…

— Hermann Broch

At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often apes or…

— Carrie Brownstein

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

— Milan Kundera

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

— Theodor Adorno

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

— Odd Nerdrum

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

— Odd Nerdrum

The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain…

— Slavoj Žižek

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

— Milan Kundera