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

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 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.

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

Fine! I'll throw on some clothes. Turn around. I'm in my pj's""I'm a guy. That's like asking a kid not to glance at the candy counter.

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.

X-Men films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

No go sections of the city and they work on law and the police don't go in there. That is not helping anything [in immigrants' assimilation]. That creates a situation like France, unfortunately.

Moi?” He put his hand over his heart and did his best wounded-innocent look. “You must be thinking of some other uncouth jackass. Which makes me jealous, by the way.

Nico leaned over and plucked a grape. Probably that was the guy’s entire diet for the day.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.