Words matter. These are the best Kitsch Quotes from famous people such as Charles Jencks, Marcel Wanders, Carrie Brownstein, Roger Scruton, Anne Enright, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you can’t take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.
For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It’s very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.
At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often apes or references art. This referential, ersatz quality is why it’s so fun to collect.
18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the ‘thees’ and ‘thous’ of Victorian poetry does the disease begin to grow in our poetic tradition.
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.
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
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.
There’s so many German songs which are really popular in Germany that I find really bad. It can quickly border on kitsch pop.
The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.
People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.
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.
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 Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.
Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
Ultimately Warhol’s private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
Working with Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch was incredible.
One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is it? When did it begin? And why?
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular – typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.
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.
In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don’t mind that – as long as people buy the books.
