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.

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.

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

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

Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.

Everybody’s scared, but if you don’t let your fears stop you, that’s bravery.

People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them towards wrong.

I'm learning how to taste everything.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.

We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.

It's a real stumper to sit around and try to think in your own head, but when you go into somebody else's head that takes the foot off the breaks. You can think in someone else's head.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.

That all depends on what "is" is.