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

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

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

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

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