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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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 thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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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.
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