Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated. Camille Paglia More Quotes by Camille Paglia More Quotes From Camille Paglia 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 rushing people looks In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. Camille Paglia materialism eras art Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. Camille Paglia vocabulary emotional song Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. Camille Paglia dance inspirational art The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair. Camille Paglia feckless damage-is-done years Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind. Camille Paglia males mind art Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics, and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. Camille Paglia males philosophy sex The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger. Camille Paglia stronger real men Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself. Camille Paglia fate months faces Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt. Camille Paglia egypt greek order Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS. Camille Paglia free-love generations love-is Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very formative moment in my adolescence and impressed me forever with the persona of the prostitute, whom I continue to revere. The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture. Camille Paglia girl yale men Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour. Camille Paglia rising ballet world The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way. Camille Paglia birth miracle way All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms. Camille Paglia men philosophy art Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana. Camille Paglia mother mean jesus Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. Camille Paglia mother baby son Capitalism is an art form. Camille Paglia capitalism form art What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks. Camille Paglia vampire secret thinking When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde. Camille Paglia wilde oscars doubt
