“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”
— Camille Paglia
Author: Camille Paglia
Category: music
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“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.”
— Camille Paglia
Author: Camille Paglia
Category: history
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“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”
— Camille Paglia
Author: Camille Paglia
Category: science
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“Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.”
— Camille Paglia
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Category: home
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“American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.”
— Camille Paglia
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Category: power
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“A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.”
— Camille Paglia
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Category: war
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“Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.”
— Camille Paglia
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“In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.”
— Camille Paglia
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Category: education
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“Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?”
— Camille Paglia
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Category: women
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“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
Author: Camille Paglia
Category: history
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“In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.”
— Camille Paglia
Author: Camille Paglia
Category: art
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