Home / Quotes / Quote by Camille Paglia

Quote by Camille Paglia

“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.”

Quote by Camille Paglia

Author

Camille Paglia is an American academic, cultural critic, and author known for her controversial views on a variety of cultural and social issues. Born on April 2, 1947, she has taught at several universities and has written numerous books and articles on topics such as art, literature, and gender studies. more

You May Also Like

“Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.”

Thinking Mind Hands Philosophical Practicals Mathematical Speculation Ingenuity Odysseus Deep Thinking Rodin

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

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

“We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.”

Violence Cycles Cynicism Idealism Barbarism Disillusionment

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

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

“Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.”

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

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

“Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson stand alone above women poets, because poetry's mystical energies are ruled by a hierach requiring the sexual subordination of her petitioners. Women have achieved more as novelists than as poets because the social novel operates outside the ancient marriage of myth and eroticism.”

Giving Energy Social Novel Poet Ancient Myth Access Novelists Muse Mystical Homosexual Erotic Stand Alone Emily Great Poet Subordination

Author:Camille Paglia

“In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.”

Ifs Years Today Five Intellectual Hundred Tradition Twenties Western Conservative Dialogue Alternatives Liberalism Critique Twenty Five

Author:Camille Paglia

“In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.”

Political Purpose Order Feminism Gay Activism Division Insisting Gay And Straight

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled; furthermore, it is unlikely that the venerable scholars will stand up afterward to declare, "This lecture was a load of crap." The more profound a professor's distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk.”

People Art Book Ends Company Listening Art Is Sitting Profound Crowds Professors Scholar Load Crap Unlikely Lectures Proceeding Distaste History And Art

Author:Camille Paglia

“Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.”

Sides Black Party Exercise East Radical Tea Tea Party Chic Panthers East Side Black Panther Upper East Side

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.”

“There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.”

Ability Source Terrible Judgment Areas Filled Constant Historical Ignorant Categories Pretense Distortion Blunders Generalization

Author:Camille Paglia