Quotes by Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia

American academic and social critic

Lived from: 1947 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 2 april 1947

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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 cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    ― Camille Paglia
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  • The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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  • The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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  • The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
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  • The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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  • The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    ― Camille Paglia
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  • The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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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 with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
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  • The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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  • The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
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  • The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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  • The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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  • The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
    Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
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  • The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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  • The post-war publish or perish tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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  • The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.
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  • The real butches are straight... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    ― Camille Paglia
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  • The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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  • The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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  • The Seventies theory explosion was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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