Camille Quotes
I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.
Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.
Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.
I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.
...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.
Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it destroys all sensations.
The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.
The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.
The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.
Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.
It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.
