Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.

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

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

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.

The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.