Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
EDWARD ALBEEArt has an obligation to offend.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Every monster was a man first.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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