Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch
Hermann Brochwas a 20th-century Austrian writer, considered one of the major Modernists...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 November 1886
CountryGermany
mad insane gone
Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?
hate men glasses
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head
people promise important
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
believe reality men
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.
mother children kitsch
Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them
kitsch goddess
The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.
kitsch ethical aesthetic
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
reality kitsch doe
Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.
crazy quality kitsch
The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.
world kitsch novel
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be...
art kitsch form
Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.
art kitsch copies
You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.
beautiful essence confusion
The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."
rome ideas age
If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'