Kitsch Quotes - Page 2

Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

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

Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

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

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

Have we not huddled in bunkers, while some premonition of tomorrow hung in the air and a comrade started singing? Oh, it felt so melancholy! And it was kitsch.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.

The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.

The precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its own ends. It draws its lifeblood, so to speak, from this reservoir of accumulated experience

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.

I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.