Karsten Harries
Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.Collection: Successful
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.Collection: Artist
The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.Collection: Needs
To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of bad art that we do not condemn as Kitsch. To condemn something as Kitsch is to condemn it on moral grounds.Collection: Art
We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.Collection: Struggle
How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitschCollection: Despair
The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.Collection: Want
Not all kitsch is sweet.Collection: Sweet