Kitsch Quotes

A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.

Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.

Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.

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

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort

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

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

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

How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

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

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

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

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

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.

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

Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.