Karsten Harries Quotes & Sayings

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. — Karsten Harries

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

Not all kitsch is sweet. — Karsten Harries

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

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted. — Karsten Harries

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

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

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