9 Quotes by Edward Abbey about art
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All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
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Life imitates art -- but badly.
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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.
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In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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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.
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In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
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Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
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