Edward Abbey Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Perfect, Ballet

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

• The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Responsibility, Two

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

• All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Inspire, Nature And Life

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("Fire Lookout: Numa Ridge", p. 57), 1977.

• Life imitates art -- but badly.

  Edward Abbey

  Art

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

• Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Philosophy, Crude

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

• Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Great Art, Art Is

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

• Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Numbers, Littles

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

• Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Pride, Taste

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

• 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.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Perfect, Produce

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

• Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Expansion, Alternatives

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

• Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Savages, Madness

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

• In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Political, World

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

• 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.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Art, Museums

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

• There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Enemy, Looks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

• In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Honesty, Clean

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

• In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Soul, Body

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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