Kitsch Quotes - Page 6

• Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Emotional, Effort

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• Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

  Robert Musil

  Art, Air, Tools

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

  Hermann Broch

  Art, Form

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• 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.

  Roger Scruton

  Names, Emotion, Mystery

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

  Odd Nerdrum

  Art, Art Is, Superficiality

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• Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

  Gillo Dorfles

  Attitude, Emotional, Ambiguous

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• Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

  Denis Dutton

  Cease

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