Kitsch quotes
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"Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet."
"Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion."
"No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition."
"Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse."
"Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence."
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"In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions."
"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."
"Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch"
"Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value."
