Father/categories

Famous quotes containing the words father and/or categories:

“The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

“Kitsch ... is 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.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)