Camille Paglia Quotes

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

I don't really like reading: I like seeing and touching images.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

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

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.

Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion.

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.