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Not all kitsch is sweet.
Karsten Harries
/
Kitsch
Sweet
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We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.
Odd Nerdrum
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Painter
Deathbed
Kitsch
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A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
Taylor Kitsch
/
Actor
Hurt
Kitsch
Rodeo
Anyone
Old
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The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.
Karsten Harries
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Enchanted
Kitsch
Want
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The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.
Hermann Broch
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Writer
Goddess
Kitsch
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One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.
John Bayley
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Writer
Art
Function
Kitsch
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Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.
Clement Greenberg
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Essayist
Formulas
Kitsch
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Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.
Roger Scruton
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Philosopher
Art
Desire
Kitsch
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Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch
Slavoj Žižek
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Philosopher
Kitsch
Verge
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The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
Sting
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Musician
Americana
Fun
Kitsch
Super Bowl
Bowl
Super
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Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.
Denis Dutton
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Philosopher
Absence
Irony
Kitsch
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Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch
Denis Dutton
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Philosopher
Cease
Kitsch
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.
Taylor Kitsch
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Actor
Gone
Kitsch
Walks
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If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.
Balthus
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Artist
Ifs
Kitsch
Speak
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Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.
Frank Wedekind
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Playwright
Form
Gothic
Kitsch
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Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.
Saul Friedlander
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Historian
Kitsch
Myth
World
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The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.
Karsten Harries
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Emotion
Kitsch
Needs
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Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.
Odd Nerdrum
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Painter
Art
Art Is
Kitsch
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Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
John Cusack
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Actor
Dangerous
Kitsch
Looks
Taken
Extreme
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Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.
Hermann Broch
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Writer
Art
Form
Kitsch
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Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.
Mike Curran
/
Art
Kitsch
Personality
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...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.
Steve Toltz
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Novelist
Ifs
Kitsch
Rainbow
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Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying.
Matei Calinescu
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Kitsch
Lying
May
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We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.
Karsten Harries
/
Kitsch
Past
Struggle
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Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
Hermann Broch
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Writer
Aesthetic
Ethical
Kitsch
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Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.
Mike Curran
/
Kitsch
Modern
World
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Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.
Odd Nerdrum
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Painter
Art
Kitsch
Talent
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Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.
John Bayley
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Writer
Courses
Existence
Kitsch
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High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.
Robert C. Solomon
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Kitsch
May
Said
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No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
Milan Kundera
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Writer
Human Condition
Kitsch
Matter
Scorn
Condition
How Much
Integral
Integral Part
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The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch
Theodor Adorno
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Sociologist
Art
Imitation
Kitsch
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A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.
Matei Calinescu
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Home
Kitsch
Real
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How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch
Karsten Harries
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Despair
Easy
Kitsch
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A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.
Hermann Broch
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Writer
Kitsch
Novel
World
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Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
Allen Ginsberg
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Poet
Catholic
Catholic Church
Church
Kitsch
Supreme
Warhol
Reference
Ultimately
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In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.
Theodor Adorno
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Sociologist
Joy
Kitsch
Shameless
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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
Milan Kundera
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Writer
Answers
Kitsch
Unbearable Lightness Of Being
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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
Don Delillo
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Writer
Art
Kitsch
Taste
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Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.
Milan Kundera
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Writer
Existence
Kitsch
Unbearable Lightness Of Being
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The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.
Robert C. Solomon
/
Kitsch
Should
Suspicious
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Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
Walter Benjamin
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Literary Critic
Art
Kitsch
Teach
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Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).
Mike Curran
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Art
Cold
Kitsch
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You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.
Hermann Broch
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Writer
Art
Copies
Kitsch
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Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
Milan Kundera
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Writer
Forgotten
Kitsch
Unbearable Lightness Of Being
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The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.
Karsten Harries
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Artist
Kitsch
Reality
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I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.
Taylor Kitsch
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Actor
Actors
Kitsch
Want
Actor
Better Actor
Dive
Each Time
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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
Charles Jencks
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Landscape Architect
Kitsch
Lost
Ornaments
Postmodernism
Understanding
Meaning
Meaning Of
Ornament
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Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
Harold Rosenberg
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Writer
Art
Artist
Kitsch
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
Taylor Kitsch
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Actor
Closets
Kitsch
Shirts
Closet
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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.
Taylor Kitsch
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Actor
Actors
Admire
Kitsch
Littles
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