School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
EDWARD ALBEEAudiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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