Quote

The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

Edward Albee

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Author
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
Government
Regulated
Promoting
Spontaneous
Generosity
Interested
Taking

More quotes by Edward Albee

Image
The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.
Edward Albee
Image
If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
Edward Albee
Image
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.
Edward Albee
Image
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
Edward Albee
Image
The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
Edward Albee
Image
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
Image
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Edward Albee
Image
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
Edward Albee
Image
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
Edward Albee
Image
The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
Edward Albee
Image
Progress is a set of assumptions.
Edward Albee
Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
Edward Albee
Image
Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
Edward Albee
Image
There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
Edward Albee
Image
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
Edward Albee
Image
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
Edward Albee
Image
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
Edward Albee
Image
My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
Edward Albee
Image
To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
Edward Albee
Image
When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
Edward Albee