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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
Edward Albee
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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
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I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Edward Albee
You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
Edward Albee
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
Edward Albee
I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
Edward Albee
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
Edward Albee
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.
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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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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.
Edward Albee
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
Edward Albee
I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
Edward Albee
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
Edward Albee
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
Edward Albee
Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
Edward Albee
I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.
Edward Albee
Every monster was a man first.
Edward Albee
