Kitsch Art Quotes

When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'

It's a magpie aesthetic: If something is hideous, that's interesting. It's kind of the same sensibility that Andy Warhol had. He was interested in everything and soaked up what he saw like a sponge.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

Kitsch is very important to me.

Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

I collect items like Elvis Presley clock radios and '50s memorabilia. It inspires a lot of my imagery. I like tasteful trash.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

Whether it is a garden gnome, the sound of Bing Crosby launching into 'White Christmas', the blinking innocent eyes of Bambi or the words of Patience Strong, the kitsch phenomenon is there as strong and recognisable as your mother's face. You seldom if ever have the question, whether this is kitsch or not. If you think it might be, then it is.

The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to give them their own museum. You don't even know who these artists are - you can buy them at garage sales, antique stores and places like that. They're brilliant because they were done with the intention of being great, but the artist sort of made a wrong turn. Some of them are hilarious and I can't get enough of them.

If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.