K Quotes
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“Kitsch is the aesthetic ideal of all politicians and all political parties and movements. Those of us who live in a society where various political tendencies exist side by side and competing influences cancel or limit one another can manage more or less to escape the kitsch inquisition: the individual can preserve his individuality; the artist can create unusual works. But whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.”
“Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.”
Source: Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel
“Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.”
“Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.”
“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.”
“Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying.”
Source: Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism
“Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.”
“Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.”
“Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.”
“Kitsch tells you how nice you are: it offers easy feelings on the cheap. Beauty tells you to stop thinking about yourself, and to wake up to the world of others. It says, look at this, listen to this, study this - for here is something more important than you. Kitsch is a means to cheap emotion; beauty is an end in itself. We reach beauty through setting our interests aside and letting the world dawn on us. There are many ways of doing this, but art is undeniably the most important, since it presents us with the image of human life - our own life and all that life means to us - and asks us to look on it directly, not for what we can take from it but for what we can give to it. Through beauty art cleans the world of our self-obsession.”
Source: Confessions of a Heretic
“Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical”
“Kitsch
The blank page awaits
the tender touch of ink.
The blank page cries out
for words in sync.
But the brush shivers,
dreads the slip.
One awry stroke,
the page might rip.
A melodic flow
or a mistaken rhyme?
Empty spaces
leave room for crime.
None can predict
what art turns out to be.
“The blank page” to an artist
is what you are to me.”
“Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.”
“KITSIS:
What you see at the beginning and think you know is absolutely not what you're going to know at the end.”
“Kitsune sonreía a menudo, y sonreía como sonríen los Soles. Con alegría. Y también lloraba, y cuando lloraba, lloraba como lloran las nubes. Con tristeza.”
Source: Hanami
“Kitt Peak National Observatory was infested with rodents. There were so many that rodent traps were in daily use there.”
“Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.”
“Kitten..." Whip quick, he grasped her waist and lifted her up so she fit snugly against his hard cock. "I know you love me best naked.”
Source: Brazen
“Kitten?"
"Yeah?"
His eyes were beautiful when they met mine, luminous and clear, and a long moment stretched out between us. "I love you.”
Source: Opposition
“Kitten, four hours of sleep while holding you is far more beneficial to me than eight hours of endless tossing and turning because you're not there. -Bones from This Side of the Grave”
“Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I’ve said is…an understatement.”
“Kitten, when did you get so tall? (Ravyn) I grew while you were in the bathroom. (Erika)”
“Kitten, you need to make a decision. Either we stay here and behave or we leave now and I promise you”—his voice dipped lower and the words fell against my lips—“if we leave, I won’t behave.”
“Kitten, you still haven’t told her? Blimey, what are you waiting for?” “The Second Coming of Christ!” I snapped.”
“Kitten, your hands are heaven and your eyes are my home.”
“Kitten." His voice was thick with something I couldn't name. "This is the part... where you don't have a choice.”
“Kittens and clowns don't make sense to me anymore.”
Source: Long Way Home
“Kittens are as lively as the days of spring. They make everybody happy.”
“Kittens are lively as the days of spring. They make everybody happy.”
“Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.”
“Kittens can happen to anyone.”
Source: The silent miaow: a manual for kittens, strays, and homeless cats
“Kittens!
How did I not know about kittens?!
They’re boomeranging on the rocks—
like a hurricane and a hug, all in one.”
Source: Cadence and Kittenfish: A Mermaid Tale
“Kittens, kittens, showers of kittens, visitations of kittens. So many, you see them as Kitten, like leaves growing on a bare branch, staying heavy and green, then falling, exactly the same every year. People coming to visit say: What happened to that lovely kitten? What lovely kitten? They are all lovely kittens.”
Source: On Cats
“Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!"”
“Kittens were the worst. They climbed your pants and smelled bad and didn’t know how to behave. They lured guys you liked into your apartment and then ruined your chances at a relationship. They were helpless, and they needed me. But I wasn’t helpless, and it was time to start acting like it.”
“Kittens will make your sad go away”
Source: John Dies at the End
“Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.”
“Kitty did in fact conceal her new views and feelings from her mother. She concealed them not because she did not respect or did not love her mother, but simply because she was her mother. She would have revealed them to anyone sooner than to her mother.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Kitty felt that Anna was perfectly unaffected and was not trying to conceal anything, but that she lived in another, higher world full of complex poetic interests beyond Kitty’s reach.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that take what she describes as an 'unblinking look' at their subjects - which might, of course, mean that her eyes are permanently open or permanently closed... the result is a work so bad that Britons cannot realise how fortunate they are in being unable to buy it. The great mistake with this book is not that it has been published in Britain, but that it has actually been published anywhere else.”
“Kitty need's a tounge bath”
“Kitty's always saying how origin stories are important.
At college, when people ask us how we met, how will we answer them? The short story is, we grew up together. But that's more Josh's and my story. High school sweet-hearts? That's Peter and Gen's story. So what's ours, then?
I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter.”
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Kitty se hotărî să caute și ea nenorociți, oriunde s-ar fi aflat, să-i ajute din toate puterile, să le împartă Evanghelii și să citească din ele bolnavilor, criminalilor, muribunzilor. O ispitea mai ales gândul de a le citi ucigașilor.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. We will always remember her fondly.”
“Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?”
“Kitu cha kwanza jiulize unataka nini. Halafu omba, kwa mungu yoyote unayemwamini. Kisha amini, kwamba umepata, hadi utakapopata.”
“Kitu cha kwanza kufanya kama umeamua kuficha ukweli wape watu ukweli mwingine kulinda thamani ya utu wako.”
“Kitu cha kwanza kufanyika mwanadamu anapozaliwa ni kuvuta pumzi ya kwanza katika mapafu ya mwili wake. Cha mwisho kufanyika kabla ya kufa ni kutoa pumzi ya mwisho katika mapafu ya mwili wake. Pumzi iliyoingia kwanza baada ya kuzaliwa, itakuwa ya mwisho kutoka kabla ya kufa. Pumzi ni bora kuliko muda halafu pumzi ni uhai. Bila uhai watu hawataweza kusherehekea mwaka mpya au kufanya chochote. Likumbuke jina la Mwenyezi Mungu katika kila pumzi unayoingiza na kutoa.”
“Kitu kikishindikana katika maisha yako kamwe usikate tamaa kwa sababu kushindwa ni mama wa mafanikio na kukata tamaa ni mama wa kushindwa.”