Matei Calinescu quotes
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“Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.”
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“A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.”
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“While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch does not lie in whatever it may have in common with actual forgery but in its claim to supply its consumers with essentially the same kinds and qualities of beauty as those embodied in unique or rare and inaccessible originals.”
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“Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying.”
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Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.22, Macmillan
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“Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.”
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