Quotes by Kitsch Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical Hermann Broch kitschaestheticethical A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. Hermann Broch kitschnovelworld Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system. Hermann Broch kitschformart You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch. Hermann Broch kitschcopiesart 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 kitschoddsmuseums Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works. John Bayley kitschexistencecourses One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch. John Bayley kitschfunctionart Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme. John Cusack kitschtakenlooks 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 kitschprinciplestaken The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch. Karsten Harries kitschartistreality Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces. Karsten Harries kitschpaintingsuccessful How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch Karsten Harries kitschdespaireasy The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare. Karsten Harries kitschemotionneeds The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted. Karsten Harries enchantedkitschwant Not all kitsch is sweet. Karsten Harries kitschsweet 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 kitschmoralart We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles. Karsten Harries kitschstrugglepast 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 kitschdesignglasses 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 kitschwonder-womanwonder Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying. Matei Calinescu kitschmaylying«1234»
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