Kitsch ... is one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and Afr...ican 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Napoleon never wished to be justified. He killed his enemy according to Corsican traditions [le droit corse] and if he sometimes r...egretted his mistake, he never understood that it had been a crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We w...ould regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul,... to give it its final blow ... the coup de grâce for the painter as well as for the picture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the ...evening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »