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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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Its high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbells soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. – Camille Paglia

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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the wests stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of arts assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. – Camille Paglia

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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of womans attention. – Camille Paglia

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Education is the art of making man ethical. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. – Hedy Lamarr

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. – Henry Miller

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People criticized me for my photography. They said its not art. – David Hockney

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