Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

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

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

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

To live is to think.

Change ain't looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.

I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder.

He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps.

In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.

What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?