Camille Paglia Quotes

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

An art book is a museum without walls.

I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.

I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.

I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions.

He is the only politician who knows anything about art.