Quotes by Karsten Harries

Karsten Harries

How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

Despair

Easy

Kitsch

Not all kitsch is sweet.

Kitsch

Sweet

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

Enchanted

Kitsch

Want

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

Emotion

Kitsch

Needs

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

Artist

Kitsch

Reality

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.

Art

Kitsch

Moral

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

Kitsch

Past

Struggle

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

Kitsch

Painting

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Quotes by Karsten Harries

Karsten Harries

How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

Not all kitsch is sweet.

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

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.

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

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