Mike Curran quotes
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“Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.”
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“Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.”
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“Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.”
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“Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.”
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“Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).”
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Source : "L’Oreal Announces New Ambassador: Aimee Mullins". www.hollywoodnews.com. February 20, 2011.
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“...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.”
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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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“The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.”
Source : Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter