You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.
Hermann BrochIf the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'
Hermann BrochA kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.
Hermann Broch