Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

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.

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.

#Note: There is a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Your goal is not to live long…it’s to live!

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

That hate is easy, but sometimes love is easy too.

Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

You can't win every week.

One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.

Every man has two countries: his own and France.