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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.
Clement Greenberg
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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.
Osamu Tezuka
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Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.
Odd Nerdrum
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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
Clement Greenberg
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I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."
Cy Twombly
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The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
Sting
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Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.
Odd Nerdrum
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Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
Walter Benjamin
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Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."
Gillo Dorfles
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How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?
Nicolas Bourriaud
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Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
Milan Kundera
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No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
Milan Kundera
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Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
Harold Rosenberg
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Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.
Frank Wedekind
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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.
John Cusack
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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.
Emily Mortimer
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Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying.
Matei Calinescu
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The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation...
kitsch
Theodor Adorno
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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.
Jean Baudrillard
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Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
Hermann Broch
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Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.
Milan Kundera
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I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
Taylor Kitsch
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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
Milan Kundera
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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
Don DeLillo
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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.
Hermann Broch
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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
Charles Jencks
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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.
Kevin McCloud
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Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
John Cusack
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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
Hermann Broch
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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.
Taylor Kitsch
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A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.
Hermann Broch
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The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.
Karsten Harries
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Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition
Robert C. Solomon
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Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.
Karsten Harries
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A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.
Matei Calinescu
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Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
Allen Ginsberg
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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
Clement Greenberg
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In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.
Theodor Adorno
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If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.
Balthus
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Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch
Slavoj Žižek
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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.
Maggie Q
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I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.
Taylor Kitsch
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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.
Robert Musil
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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.
Taylor Kitsch
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Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.
Roger Scruton