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Camille Paglia Quotes

Total quotes: 23
“Sex is not a tragedy, it's a comedy!”
— Camille Paglia, Camille Paglia on Hugh Hefner's Legacy, Trump's Masculinity and Feminism's Sex Phobia
Tagged: Sex
“Nature has a master agenda we can only dimly know.”
— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Tagged: Nature, What Are We?, Gaia, Quote of the Moment
“Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature.”
— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Capitalism
“Teenage boys goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.”
— Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays (Vintage Original)
Tagged: Male Identity, Teenage Wildlife, Sexual Identity
“Forms of cultural expression have their own dynamic, whose evolution can never be fully foreseen.”
— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Tagged: Idea Expression, Thought as Evolution
“I long ago stopped watching TV news and chat shows because of the tedium of their hackneyed polarized politics and smarmy personnel.”
— Camille Paglia, Prominent Democrat Feminist Camille Paglia Says Hillary Clinton 'Exploits Feminism'
Tagged: TV News
“When the prestige of state and religion is low, men are free, but they find freedom intolerable and seek new ways to enslave themselves, through drugs or depression.”
— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Tagged: Freedom, Politcs, Infrastructure of Control, No Freedom
“The taboo on woman’s body is the taboo that always hovers over the place of magic.”
— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Taboo, sexuality, Female Body
“To impose rigid sex codes devised for the genteel bourgeois office on the dynamic performing arts will inevitably limit rapport, spontaneity, improvisation and perhaps creativity itself.”
— Camille Paglia, Movies, #MeToo and Modern Sexuality
Tagged: Sexual Dynamics, Art and Sex, Me Too, Gender Relations
“A bitter polarization of liberal and conservative has become so extreme and strident in both the Americas and Europe that it sometimes resembles mental illness, severed from the common sense realities of everyday life.”
— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Tagged: Polarization, Politcs, Left and Right, Quote of the Moment
“Man is a fetishist. Without his fetish, woman will just gobble him up again.”
— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Fetishism, sexuality
“Every male projection is transient and must be anxiously, endlessly renewed.”
— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Men, The Problem With A Being Man, Male Issues, Male Anxiety, The Anxiety of Masculinity
“Yes! I believe in objectification. The human eye makes objects.”
— Camille Paglia, Camille Paglia cuts the malarkey: Women just need to toughen up
Tagged: Objectification
“Political correctness represents the fossilized institutionalization of once-vital revolutionary ideas, which have become mere rote formulas. It is repressively Stalinist, dependent on a labyrinthine, parasitic bureaucracy to enforce its empty dictates.”
— Camille Paglia, Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democrats, Transgenderism, and Islamist Terror
Tagged: Political Correctness
“Woman’s body is a labyrinth in which man is lost.”
— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Tagged: female, sexuality, Sex
“Everything sacred and inviolable provokes profanation and violation.”
— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Bringing The High Low, Desecration, Break The Profundity, Boundary Breaks
“I am still amazed at the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger to governor—a man who has never held political office and who participated in only one serious debate. It is a disturbing sign in any nation when politics have become so inefficient and corrupt that the people turn to an outsider as ‘strong man’ for leadership. This is how fascism is born. Because it is Schwarzenegger’s machismo—represented on a superhuman scale in his films—that California voters want to attack the entrenched special interests in Sacramento, his behavior toward women was irrelevant. Or rather, his behavior actually reinforced his virile image as a forceful personality who pushes through barriers”
— Camille Paglia, Zombie time at campaign Hillary: Camille Paglia on Trump’s real strength and Clinton’s fatal sleepwalking
Tagged: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics, Election 2016, Sacramento Politcs
“Drunk with words, spin, and snark, middle-class journalists can't be bothered to notice the complex physical constructions that make modern civilization possible. The laborers who build and maintain these marvels are recognized only if they can be shoehorned into victim status. But if they dare to think for themselves and vote differently from their liberal overlords, they are branded as rubes and pariahs.”
— Camille Paglia, Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democrats, Transgenderism, and Islamist Terror
Tagged: Journalism In 2017, Physical vs. Digital Economies
“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passé abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. I want to restore the terms art and culture to their general nineteenth-century sense. But I also want to apply “art” to everything artificial or fabricated, including engineering projects like roads and bridges. Art for me means all works of imagination, from poetry to television commercials to pornography, with questions of quality still operative. I see the Western past as a story, episodic and cumulative.”
— Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays (Vintage Original)
Tagged: Defining History, Defining Art
“Alcohol's enhancement of direct face-to-face dialogue is precisely what is needed by today's technologically agile generation, magically interconnected yet strangely isolated by social media. Clumsy hardcore sexting has sadly supplanted simple hanging out over a beer at a buzzing dive. By undermining the art of conversation, the age-21 law has also had a disastrous effect on our arts and letters, with their increasing dullness and mediocrity. This tyrannical infantilizing of young Americans must stop!”
— Camille Paglia, Time.com
Tagged: Alcohol, Laws, Lower The American Drinking Age
“No sin or crime by Polanski the man will ever reduce the towering achievement of Polanski the artist... 

The case of Woody Allen, who began his career as a comedy writer and stand-up comedian, is quite different. Polanski’s chilly worldview descends from European avant-garde movements like surrealism and existentialism. In a sinister cameo in Chinatown, Polanski sliced open Jack Nicholson’s nose with a switchblade knife. Allen, however, in his onscreen persona of lovable nebbish, seductively ingratiated himself with audiences. Hence the current wave of disillusion with Allen and his many fine films emanates from a sense of deception and betrayal, including among some actors who once felt honored to work with him.”
— Camille Paglia, Movies, #MeToo and Modern Sexuality
Tagged: Woody Allen, Hollywood, Roman Polanski, Who Are You?, Art and Ethics
“How eerily history seems to be repeating itself! But this time it is the fate of the entire nation that hangs in the balance. Trump is a stormily dynamic change-maker who will surely win this election unless the Democrats get their house in order and nominate a figure of honor and integrity. Bernie Sanders, who represents the wave of the future, is my first choice, but Joe Biden, with his international experience, would be a solid second. If the kamikaze party wants to nominate an ethically challenged incompetent like Hillary Clinton, then I’ll be voting Green for the second time. Go, Jill Stein!”
— Camille Paglia, Zombie time at campaign Hillary: Camille Paglia on Trump’s real strength and Clinton’s fatal sleepwalking
Tagged: Election 2016, Jill Stein, Green Party, Joe Biden
“Barbra Streisand has never received due credit for her pioneering role in shattering female convention and laying the groundwork for second-wave feminism. Emerging from bohemian nightclubs where her campy patter and vintage costumes were shaped by gay male sensibility, Streisand embodied a scrappy non-conformism and confrontational toughness that strikingly contrasted with the emotional depth and elegant beauty of her singing.”
— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Tagged: Musicians, feminism, Barbra Streisand
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