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In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people buy the books.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.
— Charles Jencks
For me as an actor, I use a lot of music. Music is a huge part of developing and getting into a certain mindset.
— Taylor Kitsch
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation ... kitsch
— Theodor Adorno
Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists
— Milan Kundera
I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."
— Cy Twombly
A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
— Taylor Kitsch
Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."
— Gillo Dorfles
Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.
— Taylor Kitsch
The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
— Vivienne Westwood
The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.
— Robert C. Solomon
Kitsch lives with one foot in the realm of aesthetics and another foot in the realm of ethics.
— Roger Kimball
One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.
— John Bayley
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.
— Taylor Kitsch
You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.
— John Lamb Lash
There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.
— Saul Friedlander
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
Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
— Walter Benjamin
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).
— Mike Curran
The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."
— Hermann Broch
Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.
— Frank Wedekind
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
— Harold Rosenberg
I would murder to play Gambit again!
— Taylor Kitsch
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
— Don DeLillo
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
— Milan Kundera
Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.
— Karsten Harries
Don't we all have an itch for kitsch?
— Matei Calinescu
Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.
— John Bayley
The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.
— Karsten Harries
How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?
— Nicolas Bourriaud
I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
— Taylor Kitsch
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.
— Karsten Harries
People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.
— Shah Rukh Khan
Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.
— Saul Friedlander
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
— Charles Jencks
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
— Milan Kundera
In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.
— Theodor Adorno
If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.
— Odd Nerdrum
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.
— Theodor Adorno
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.
— Emily Mortimer
True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.
— Tiffany Madison
You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.
— Hermann Broch
In the kingdom of kitsch you would be a monster
— Milan Kundera
There is nothing more vulgar than sophisticated kitsch.
— Dwight Macdonald
![Kitsch Quotes By Slavoj Zizek: Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/kitsch-quotes-by-slavoj-zizek-269795.jpg "Kitsch Quotes By Slavoj Zizek: Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch")
Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch
— Slavoj Zizek
High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.
— Robert C. Solomon
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
The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.
— Hermann Broch
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.
— Taylor Kitsch
The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.
— Karsten Harries
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
— Allen Ginsberg
I'm an all-or-nothing person.
— Taylor Kitsch
I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
— Taylor Kitsch
You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
— Taylor Kitsch
I'm never going to be like, 'Oh, this attention from women sucks.' It's flattering 99 percent of the time.
— Taylor Kitsch
Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.
— Walter Benjamin
Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.
— Matei Calinescu
Not all kitsch is sweet.
— Karsten Harries
Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?
— Richard Strauss
Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.
— Clement Greenberg
Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.
— Odd Nerdrum
It is possible to call Tolstoy Kitsch.
— Robert Scholes
A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.
— Matei Calinescu
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be ...
— Hermann Broch
We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.
— Odd Nerdrum
Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.
— Roger Scruton
Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.
— Clement Greenberg
Kitsch is a sentimentalization of reality in response to cultural failure. The greater the failure, the more malignant the sentimentalization.
— Roger Kimball
