Kitsch Quotes

Kitsch Quote of the day

A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?

How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying.

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

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.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.

Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

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

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.

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.

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.

Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

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.