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

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

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

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

The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.

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