The precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its own ends. It draws its lifeblood, so to speak, from this reservoir of accumulated experience

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one of the most challenging.. if only because so few people have done it well enough to be remembered.. but I'm not sure the challenge is worth it.

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.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.