Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.