Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
EDWARD ALBEEGood writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
EDWARD ALBEEProgress is a set of assumptions.
EDWARD ALBEEDeath is release, if you’ve lived all right.
EDWARD ALBEEAmerican critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
EDWARD ALBEEAudiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
EDWARD ALBEEThe 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.
EDWARD ALBEEThe characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
EDWARD ALBEEWhy we are here is an impenetrable question.
EDWARD ALBEEI created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
EDWARD ALBEEI have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
EDWARD ALBEEArt has an obligation to offend.
EDWARD ALBEEIf you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
EDWARD ALBEEI 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.
EDWARD ALBEEWhat I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
EDWARD ALBEEI find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
EDWARD ALBEEIn 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.
EDWARD ALBEE