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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Because of my own familys service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. – Camille Paglia

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Family
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands societys care. – Camille Paglia

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power
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Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized womens movement of the late 1960s and 70s. – Camille Paglia

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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. – Jimmy Carter

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Art

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art. – Marc Chagall

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Times malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day! – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…. We need silence to be able to touch souls. – Mother Teresa

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I dont need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home. – Jim DeMint

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Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you are stronger than whatever tried to hurt you. – Author unknown

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The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent. – Wes Smith

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