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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their… — 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
Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual… — 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 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
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous… — 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
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
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 Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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 Image
Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
