Art should never try to be popular.
EDWARD ALBEEIt always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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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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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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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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 pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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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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