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.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

If 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.'

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

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

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head