Art Quotes by Don DeLillo

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen…

— Don DeLillo

“I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.”

— Don DeLillo

“Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not…

— Don DeLillo

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

— Don DeLillo

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

— Don DeLillo

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

— Don DeLillo

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

— Don DeLillo

“The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.”

— Don DeLillo

“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.…

— Don DeLillo

He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in…

— Don DeLillo

“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…

— Don DeLillo

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe…

— Don DeLillo

“The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole…

— Don DeLillo

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…

— Don DeLillo

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially…

— Don DeLillo

“As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way…

— Don DeLillo