Art has an obligation to offend.
EDWARD ALBEE
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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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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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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