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 perfect great-art
Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
symphony perfect strive
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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.
sea sky perfect
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
war officers
War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
self hatred self-hatred
One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.
artist decline trajectory
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
littles facts academic
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
school ivy league
Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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.
tombstone great-work ends
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
towns trouble building
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
dog tick critics
Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.