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.

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

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

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

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

Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.