Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I choose to not do that. It's that simple.

If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.

We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.

I have always been astonished by hate. Revenge and hate. That is such strange human elements. I have seen a lot of that in my life. I am just as surprised each time. By revenge and hate.

Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.

Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

The storytelling ... is kind of amazing.

If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.

If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.

By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.