Gillo Dorfles quotes
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“Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."”
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“All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.”
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“At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask why this unforeseen aesthetic and ethnic debasement of their values came about, or why monuments have not adapted to the times. Perhaps, instead of evoking authentic religious, patriotic or mystical sentiments, they evoke only the customary ersatz for these sentiments and have suffered the fate of becoming sentimental.”
-- Gillo Dorfles
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“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
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“I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.”
Source : Source: www.smh.com.au
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“No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.”
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“...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.”
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Source : Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter
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“The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.”
Source : Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.79, Northwestern University Press
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