Quotes by Kitsch Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. Allen Ginsberg kitsch catholic church If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch. Balthus kitsch speak ifs In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. Charles Jencks kitsch ornaments understanding The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort Clement Greenberg kitsch effort natural Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art. Clement Greenberg kitsch cutting art Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas. Clement Greenberg kitsch formulas The precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its own ends. It draws its lifeblood, so to speak, from this reservoir of accumulated experience Clement Greenberg kitsch availability discovery I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste." Cy Twombly tchaikovsky kitsch profound 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. David Hume kitsch taste art 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. Denis Dutton kitsch self may Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch. Denis Dutton kitsch irony absence Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch Denis Dutton kitsch cease Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. Don DeLillo kitsch taste art I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. Emily Mortimer kitsch girl dancing Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque. Frank Wedekind gothic kitsch form Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality." Gillo Dorfles kitsch emotional attitude Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist. Harold Rosenberg kitsch artist art The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch. Hermann Broch kitsch goddess Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them Hermann Broch kitsch mother children Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism. Hermann Broch kitsch doe reality 1234»