Camille Paglia Quotes About Rituals

Quotes about: Rituals

• The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Honor, Criticism

• Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

  Camille Paglia

  Sports, Art, Nature

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

• Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Males, Western Culture

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

• Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

  Camille Paglia

  Rose, Elements, Flight

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.26, Canongate Books

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