Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). - Mike Curran - Quotesmemo.com

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Mike Curran

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

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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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