Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Art should never try to be popular.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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It 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.
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The 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.
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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.
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Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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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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I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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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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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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In 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.
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