Kitsch Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.

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

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.

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.

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

Don't we all have an itch for kitsch?

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.

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

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

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

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

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.

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

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

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

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

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

Not all kitsch is sweet.

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

Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.

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.

People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

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

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

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

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.

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

It is possible to call Tolstoy Kitsch.

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.

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

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.