Kitsch Quotes - Page 3

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

Don't we all have an itch for kitsch?

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

Not all kitsch is sweet.

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.

It is possible to call Tolstoy Kitsch.

High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch