Quotes from Camille Paglia

Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.

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

I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

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

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.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

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

Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

Teaching is a performance art.

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.

Capitalism is an art form.

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

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

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

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

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

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 going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.