Don DeLillo Art Quotations

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.