Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
EDWARD ALBEESchool curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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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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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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 not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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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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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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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