Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

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.

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

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

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves