Camille Paglia Quotes

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow. - Camille Paglia

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. - Camille Paglia

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. - Camille Paglia

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

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. - Camille Paglia

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens. - Camille Paglia

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. - Camille Paglia

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