Quotes About Kitsch

El kitsch provoca dos lágrimas de emoción, una inmediatamente después de la otra. La primera lágrima dice: ¡Qué hermoso, los niños corren por el césped! La segunda lágrima dice: ¡Qué hermoso es estar emocionado junto con toda la humanidad al ver a los niños corriendo por el césped!

Since the days of the French Revolution, one half of Europe has been referred to as the left, the other half as the right. Yet to define one or the other by means of the theoretical principles it professes is all but impossible. And no wonder: political movements rest not so much on rational attitudes as on the fantasies, images, words, and archetypes that come together to make up this or that political kitsch.

Wat linkse mensen links maakt is niet de ene of de andere theorie, maar hun vermogen welke theorie dan ook te integreren in de kitsch van de zogenaamde Grote Mars voorwaarts.

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

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

There's so many German songs which are really popular in Germany that I find really bad. It can quickly border on kitsch pop.

If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

Bitte keine magischen Zwergentrommler mehr', flehte er sie in einem Brief an, nachdem er seine Tirade abgelassen hatte. 'Keine Gespenster, Engel, Teufel oder Verwandlungen mehr. Wenn alles passieren kann, ist alles gleichgültig. Für mich ist das nichts als Kitsch.' / 'Du Dussel', tadelte sie ihn auf einer Postkarte, 'Du Erbsenzähler. Das ist Literatur, keine Physik!

Nazi kitsch may bear a blood relationship to the highbrow religion of art proclaimed by many moderns.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

But he could feel nothing but disdain for the artificial class of the merchant, who sucks up his living through buying and selling things he does not create, who collects power and wealth out of proportion to his discrimination, and who is responsible for all that is kitsch, for all that is change without progress, for all that is consumption without use.

O kitsch é a única forma de linguagem possível se quisermos comunicar com as massas, porque simplifica tudo e não apresenta nenhuma nuance.

A taste for kitsch among the well-to-do is a sign of spiritual impoverishment; but among the poor, it represents a striving for beauty, an aspiration without the likelihood of fulfilment.

I love trash. I have never believed that kitsch kills. I tell you this, so you will understand that my antipathy toward 'Love Story' is not because I am immune to either sentimentality or garbage, two qualities the book possesses in abundance. When I read 'Love Story', and I cried, in much the same way that I cry from onions, involuntarily and with great irritation, I was deeply offended...

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

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

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

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

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

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