How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.
Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch
Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.
Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.
We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.
Have we not huddled in bunkers, while some premonition of tomorrow hung in the air and a comrade started singing? Oh, it felt so melancholy! And it was kitsch.
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
It is possible to call Tolstoy Kitsch.
I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste. "
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of humility and respect. If it were not for the ethnographic material that had been collected by missionaries and anthropologists and so forth, much of past Native American society would no longer be accessible. What I object to is making kitsch of things that are very serious.
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.
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.
How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?
With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.
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
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