Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works. John Bayley More Quotes by John Bayley More Quotes From John Bayley The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner. John Bayley partners alternatives marriage One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch. John Bayley kitsch function art Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace. John Bayley vermeer reading war