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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.
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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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.
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If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
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I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, what they can live with, and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
Edward Albee
I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
Edward Albee
