Quotes by Kitsch Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical Hermann Broch kitsch aesthetic ethical A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. Hermann Broch kitsch novel world Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system. Hermann Broch kitsch form art You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch. Hermann Broch kitsch copies art Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse. Jean Baudrillard kitsch odds museums Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works. John Bayley kitsch existence courses One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch. John Bayley kitsch function art Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme. John Cusack kitsch taken looks When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. John Cusack kitsch principles taken The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch. Karsten Harries kitsch artist reality Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces. Karsten Harries kitsch painting successful How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch Karsten Harries kitsch despair easy The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare. Karsten Harries kitsch emotion needs The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted. Karsten Harries enchanted kitsch want Not all kitsch is sweet. Karsten Harries kitsch sweet To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of bad art that we do not condemn as Kitsch. To condemn something as Kitsch is to condemn it on moral grounds. Karsten Harries kitsch moral art We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles. Karsten Harries kitsch struggle past I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass. Kevin McCloud kitsch design glasses The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that. Maggie Q kitsch wonder-woman wonder Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying. Matei Calinescu kitsch may lying «1234»