Kitsch Quotes

You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.' - Taylor Kitsch

You have to remember that what we perceive now as kitschy or campy was not the intention when these decorations were originally produced. They were produced to be cute. We may look at them now and go, 'Oh, my God, that's hideous.' But back then it was considered charming. - Travis Smith

Wright was notoriously ingenious about changing his designs in the process, and these drawings cannot be said to represent anything but one stage in the concept of a design by Wright. So while it's an interesting exercise, it also comes perilously close to kitsch, and even to misrepresenting Wright's genius. - Michael Kimmelman

When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life. - Taylor Kitsch

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. - John Cusack

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids. - Taylor Kitsch

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. - Allen Ginsberg

To some Elvis fans, Graceland is the Mecca of pop-culture kitsch, but to many of the 2,500 tourists who arrive there each day... it's the hallowed shrine of a distinctly American saint. - Elaine Robbins

Think of American food. In my generation, growing up in the '60s and '70s, Banquet Fried Chicken and TV dinners were the thing. Now people are back into roasting their own chickens, and TV dinners are a point of kitsch. It will be interesting to see what survives another hundred years. - Mario Batali

There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway. - Taylor Kitsch