Kitsch Quotations

You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.

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.

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

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

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

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.

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.

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

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

In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip.

I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.

Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite.

I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

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

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

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.

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

People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

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

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

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

There could be a retro comeback because of the kitsch factor.

It will be a limited debut of the line with a few select pieces. The heritage of the Barbie brand in the United States is very sensitive and whatever we do with it, we want to do it right. We want to reposition the Barbie brand as a fashion icon and not just as a kitsch concept.

It will be a limited debut of the line with a few select pieces, ... The heritage of the Barbie brand in the United States is very sensitive and whatever we do with it, we want to do it right. We want to reposition the Barbie brand as a fashion icon and not just as a kitsch concept.

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

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

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

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

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

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

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

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

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

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

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

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.

The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be...

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

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.

...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

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

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

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.

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

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