No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
RIHANNA IS TODAY'S MOST FASCINATING PERFORMER, A MYSTERIOUS AMALGAM OF AMIABLE WARMTH AND GLITTERING CHARISMA. WITH HER KEEN CREATIVE EYE FOR LINE… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“[Nietzsche thinks artists undersexed]: “Their vampire, their talent, grudges them as a rule that squandering of force which one calls passion. If… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? — Camille Paglia Copy Share
In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
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