The 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.
EDWARD ALBEEArt should never try to be popular.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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