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Art Quotes by Camille Paglia

45 Art quotes by Camille Paglia

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A film director sketches each shot like a classic painting, treating visual art as a series of deliberate images. The writer insists that great artists are not moralists, that art first offers appearances before meaning. He also notes that true expertise requires knowing the whole of the humanities.

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Teaching is a performance art.

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Capitalism is an art form.

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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

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Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

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It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

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I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

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Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.

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A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

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Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

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Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned…

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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is…

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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure,…

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All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep…

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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment…

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As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the…

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Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the…

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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that…

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Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme…

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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware…

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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol,…

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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it…

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I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a…

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RIHANNA IS TODAY'S MOST FASCINATING PERFORMER, A MYSTERIOUS AMALGAM OF AMIABLE WARMTH AND GLITTERING CHARISMA. WITH HER KEEN CREATIVE EYE FOR LINE…

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The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"…

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The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated…

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The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as…

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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to…

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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more…

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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures…

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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards,…

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a…

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The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.…

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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous…

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Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art…

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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual…

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Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or…

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My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by…

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…

The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and…

Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of…

Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that…

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.…