Hermann Broch Quote on Romanticism and 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“

Hermann BrochHermann Broch on the connection between Romanticism and kitsch: The child becomes so like the mother they are barely distinguishable.
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Hermann Broch was an Austrian writer and intellectual, known for his philosophical novels and profound analyses of the human psyche.

Quote by Hermann Broch about the relationship between Romanticism and kitsch in literature and art.


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Hermann Broch quote about romanticism and kitsch

Hermann Broch (1886–1951) was an important Austrian writer, best known for his novels "The Sleepwalkers" and "The Death of Virgil". His works are characterized by deep engagement with existential questions and societal upheavals. Broch was also a philosopher and social critic who fled Nazi persecution to the USA, where he continued his literary and intellectual work.

Hermann Broch quote about kitsch, ethics, and radical evilCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system." Hermann Broch
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Oswald Spengler quote about cultural decline, Classicism, Romanticism, and the end of civilizationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave." Oswald Spengler
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Hans-Georg Gadamer quote about art, religion, and salvationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes." Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Erich Fromm quote about maternal love and a child's independenceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent." Erich Fromm
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Max Weber quote about rationalization, intellectualization, and the disenchantment of the worldCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental." Max Weber
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Quote by Jean Baudrillard about postmodernity as a culture of fragmentary sensations and superficialityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals." Jean Baudrillard
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