Quotes on Kitsch

Baudelaire: "What is so intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of being displeased."
Rostand: "Beauty, in art, is frequently only controlled ugliness."
Duchamp: "Good taste is the greatest enemy of art."
Wilde: "Art itself is really a form of exaggeration; and selection, which is the very spirit of art, is nothing more than an intensified mode of over-emphasis."