Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.