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Art does not progress, in the sense that science and technology do. But
the arts do develop and change. ... The most interesting and creative art of our time is not open to the generally educated; it demands special effort; it speaks a specialized language.

Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

Something is good not because it is achieved, but because another kind of truth about the human situation, another experience of what it is to be human – in short, another valid sensibility – is being revealed.

Without passion, one gets pseudo-Camp – what is merely decorative, safe, in a word, chic.

When something is just bad (rather than Camp), it’s often because it is too mediocre in its ambition.

Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. ... It’s rare
that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and
taste in ideas.