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Art Quotes by Edward Abbey
- In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
- Life imitates art -- but badly.
- Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
- Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.
- The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.
- Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.
- In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
- There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
- In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
- Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
- Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.
- Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
- 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…
- 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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