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

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

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

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

I work really hard not to have a kitsch tone to any of my work, particularly radio stuff, which sometimes goes in that direction on certain programs. — Meghan Daum

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

If I'd had a friend next to me, I would have squeezed her arm and said, Can you believe this? - but kitsch wasn't kitsch if you were alone. — Emma Straub

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

Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch. — Mike Curran

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 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. — Maggie Q

And I'm not going to be my dad's clone. And women don't turn me on. And Oliver is my home." -Rusty (Christmas Kitsch) — Amy Lane

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

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it. — Mike Curran

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

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works. — John Bayley

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

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

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. — Kevin McCloud

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole. — Mike Curran

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

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion. — Odd Nerdrum

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

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 — Hermann Broch

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

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

There is nothing more vulgar than sophisticated kitsch. — Dwight Macdonald

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

Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying. — Matei Calinescu

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

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles. — 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

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

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 deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep. — Odd Nerdrum

Kitsch is a sentimentalization of reality in response to cultural failure. The greater the failure, the more malignant the sentimentalization. — Roger Kimball

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

How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch — Karsten Harries

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