American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
EDWARD ALBEEWhen a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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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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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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