Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey
Edward Paul Abbeywas an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth29 January 1927
CountryUnited States of America
art pride taste
Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
art perfect produce
How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
art inspire nature-and-life
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
artist technique truth-is
The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.
art horse museums
Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.
art
Life imitates art -- but badly.
jobs artist miracle
The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live....
art honesty clean
In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
artist decline trajectory
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
artist veils seven
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.
art political world
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
art soul body
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
art enemy looks
There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
art philosophy crude
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.