Quote

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

Camille Paglia

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
Art Historian
Essayist
Film Critic
Journalist
Literary Critic
Professor
Teacher
Writer
Endicott
New York
Camille Anna Paglia
Contemporary
Majors
Major
Ears
Eye
Madonna
Dictate
Composer

More quotes by Camille Paglia

Image
This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.
Camille Paglia
Image
Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.
Camille Paglia
Image
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
Image
Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.
Camille Paglia
Image
Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.
Camille Paglia
Image
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
Camille Paglia
Image
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
Camille Paglia
Image
Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
Camille Paglia
Image
Because I'm criticizing liberalism, people automatically call me a conservative. This is madness! The idea that somehow one cannot critique liberalism from the left, from the left wing of liberalism. I mean, how can people be so stupid?
Camille Paglia
Image
Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
Camille Paglia
Image
Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.
Camille Paglia
Image
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Camille Paglia
Image
We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.
Camille Paglia
Image
The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.
Camille Paglia
Image
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.
Camille Paglia
Image
Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.
Camille Paglia
Image
It's so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I'm too lazy to be a lesbian.
Camille Paglia
Image
When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.
Camille Paglia
Image
My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility
Camille Paglia
Image
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
Camille Paglia