More From Camille Paglia
- "I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don’t do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots."
- "One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It’s why he found shooting on set boring – because he had already composed the film in his head."
- "Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art."
More In Art
- "The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them."― Lois McMaster Bujold
- "It is the test of a novel writer’s art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there."― Anthony Trollope
- "If you’re a woman and a guy’s ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it."― Louis C. K.