Camille Paglia Quotes

Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.

I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations - that was the whole point of the Brillo Boxes and Campbell's Soup Cans. And believe it or not, in 2009, moronic journalists are still saying to me, 'Your work is so commercial.'

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.