Not all kitsch is sweet.

- Karsten Harries

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

- Karsten Harries

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

- Karsten Harries

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 so…

- Karsten Harries

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

- Karsten Harries

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

- Karsten Harries

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

- Karsten Harries

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

- Karsten Harries