I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.
Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.
Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.
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.
Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).
When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me. ' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?