Zitat des Tages über Kitsch:
I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.
One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.
If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.
People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.
I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.
The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people buy the books.
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip.
