Camille Quotes

Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.

I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

The world isn't awful. People aren't awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad. Something breaks them down, makes them snap.

I don't understand water and gravity.

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend. Freedom is.

My children are most important to me. I'm a mother and I adore my children. I live for them.

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest.

I'm interested in making works for museums in a way that make the space feel domestic, and I'm always thinking about how this work will be part of someone's daily life.

I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

I think humor is often a very powerful tool to be able to express ideas that are heavy.

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.

I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with sculpture I have someone I can work with.

I felt like if I was on Facebook, I would probably spend my days looking at people's profiles, seeing what they do, and feeling bad about not working enough.

I know that Instagram belongs to Facebook, so I cannot really stand on a political pedestal and say, "I'm against Facebook!" But I haven't wanted to be on Facebook from the beginning.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

In the traditional Ikebana things always have to be asymmetrical, because in this they look more natural and balanced.

What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.

Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.

My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism.

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.