Quote by Camille Paglia
Its high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is d

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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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. – Camille Paglia

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Beauty
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. – Camille Paglia

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Nature
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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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History
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of arts audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. – Paul Gauguin

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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. – Franz Liszt

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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of mans cruelty and baseness. – Bryant H. McGill

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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. – James Whistler

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