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.

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

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

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

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

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