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
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.
art numbers littles
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.
art responsibility two
The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.
art perfect great-art
Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
dream artist self
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
art alternatives expansion
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 great-art art-is
Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.
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.