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

- Mike Curran

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

- Mike Curran

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as…

- Mike Curran

Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.

- Mike Curran

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

- Mike Curran