Mike Curran famous quotes

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.
-- Mike Curran

#Art #Personality #Kitsch

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.
-- Mike Curran

#Beautiful #Art #Ugly

Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.
-- Mike Curran

#Artist #Bed #Wake Up

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.
-- Mike Curran

#World #Kitsch #Modern

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).
-- Mike Curran

#Art #Kitsch #Cold

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

It is imperative that one approaches a spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.

...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

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

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.