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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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. – 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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