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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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