Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
Robert C. SolomonHigh-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)
Robert C. SolomonSpirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]
Robert C. SolomonHigh kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.
Robert C. Solomon