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Not all kitsch is sweet.
We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.
A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.
The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.
One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.
Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.
Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.
Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch
The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.
Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch
You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.
If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.
Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.
Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.
The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.
Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.
Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.
Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.
...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.
Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying.
We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.
Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.
Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.
High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch
A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.
How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.
The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.
Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).
You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.
I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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.