Camille Paglia Quotes

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Camille Paglia

Profession : Author

Birth : April 2, 1947

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

Camille Paglia

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

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A woman simply is, but a man must become.

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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

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My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

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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, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

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I guess I'm just a natural warrior.

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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

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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 of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.

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I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!

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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Camille Paglia