Distance Quote by Walter Benjamin

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

— Karsten Harries

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

— John Bayley

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

— 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

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

— Carrie Brownstein

Kitsch is very important to me.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

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

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

— John Bayley

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

— Milan Kundera

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

— Hermann Broch

High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation…

— Robert C. Solomon