Don DeLillo Quotes

Pop art is a way of liking things.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.

For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to Granny.

One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is it? When did it begin? And why?

At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often apes or references art. This referential, ersatz quality is why it's so fun to collect.

Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.