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

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

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

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

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

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