Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
EDWARD ALBEEThe 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Audiences 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.
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The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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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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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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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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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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