Esthetic Quotes by Edward Abbey

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• Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. — Milan Kundera
• What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular… — Soren Kierkegaard
• The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested,… — Anthony Kennedy
• Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon ! — Man Ray
• Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record… — Edward Abbey
• Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from… — Edward Abbey
• The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult. — Yvon Chouinard
• Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician… — Chuck Israels
• A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to… — Robert Smithson
• Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation… — Robert Indiana
• Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally… — Lewis Mumford
• The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect… — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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