How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too … - Karsten Harries

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What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's a creature like you, if you kill it it'll be all sad' and you go 'F***, alright. I won't kill it then. '

Karsten Harries

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

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The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

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Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

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

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The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

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Not all kitsch is sweet.

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