Quotes with apollonian

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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 and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

  ― Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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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 link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

  ― Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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• Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for women and the lazy. His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.

  Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

  ― Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• straight-shooter
• demonstrating
• michelangelo
• mechanistic
• sharp-edged
• limitation

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