Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Pagliais an American academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. The New York Times has described her as "first and foremost an educator". Paglia is known for her critical views of many aspects of modern culture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth2 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
sex women reality
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
nature imagination action
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
art knowing humanity
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.
art western-culture cinema
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.
beautiful block equality
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.
sex self pie
American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
mother baby son
Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
gay men female
Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.
kindness compassion syrup
Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!
art book eye
The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art
civilization savages fragility
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
problem dont-like-me like-me
My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.
sex fall men
Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.
intelligent compassion order
Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.