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

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

Don DeLillo
Art, Kitsch, Taste
Don DeLillo (2012). “Running Dog”, p.148, Vintage

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.

Don DeLillo
Art, Mind, Important
Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.200, Vintage

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

Don DeLillo
Art, People, Glimpse
Don DeLillo (2011). “The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories”, p.183, Pan Macmillan

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.

Don DeLillo
Art, New York, Air
Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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

Don DeLillo
Family, Art, Expression
Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.685, Pan Macmillan

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

Don DeLillo
Art, Communication, Reality
Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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.

Don DeLillo
Art, Challenges, Novelists
"Don DeLillo's Hidden Truths". Interview with David Streitfield, perival.com. November 11, 1997.

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