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 PagliaIt's so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I'm too lazy to be a lesbian.
Camille PagliaThe plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
Camille PagliaIf people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
Camille PagliaIf civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Camille Paglia