Quote by Camille Paglia
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. – Camille Paglia

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Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clans bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. – Camille Paglia

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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. – Camille Paglia

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mom
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. – Camille Paglia

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Art is science made clear. – Wilson Mizner

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Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? – Paul Cezanne

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In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. – Terry Pratchett

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Art

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash. – Terri Guillemets

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