Art has an obligation to offend.
EDWARD ALBEESchool curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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