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

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

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

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

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

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

In all the years together You've shared joy, and contentment too Long may it continue In the years ahead, for the both of you

Better to cry wolf over and over than never to cry wolf at all.

The finest poetry was first experience.

Who is he?" "An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.