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Edward Abbey Quotes about Art

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

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

Art, Enemy, Looks

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

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

Art, Perfect, Ballet

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

Horse, Art, Museums

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

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

Art, Responsibility, Two

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

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

Art, Savages, Madness

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

Art, Expansion, Alternatives

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

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

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.

Art, Numbers, Littles

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

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

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.

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

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.

Art, Soul, Body

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

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

Art, Philosophy, Crude

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

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

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.

Art, Perfect, Produce

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

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

Art, Political, World

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

Life imitates art -- but badly.

Art

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

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