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.

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

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

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?

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

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

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.