Camille Paglia Quotes


All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.


Citations

Paglia, Camille. Vamps & Tramps: New Essays. Vintage Books, 1994.

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Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia
  • Born: April 2, 1947
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Professor, Cultural Critic

Camille Anna Paglia is an American feminist academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. She is critical of many aspects of modern culture and is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) and other books. She is also a critic of contemporary American feminism and of post-structuralism, as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of American culture such as its visual art, music, and film history.