Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

- Hermann Broch

If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in …

- Hermann Broch

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in …

- Hermann Broch

The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is…

- Hermann Broch

Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with mo…

- Hermann Broch

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.

- Hermann Broch

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

- Hermann Broch

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

- Hermann Broch

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

- Hermann Broch