--- title: "6 Critical Quotes By Edward Albee" description: "6 Critical quotes by Edward Albee. Plus more from Edward Albee and more Critical sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25c/edward-albee-1684_actor_there-s-always-the-danger-that-there-are_385753.png" --- > [There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/there-s-always-the-danger-that-there-are-so-damn-many-things-that-a/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25c/edward-albee-1684_actor_there-s-always-the-danger-that-there-are_385753.png) > [Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/within-a-year-after-i-write-a-play-i-forget-the-experience-of-having/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/147/edward-albee-1684_actor_within-a-year-after-i-write-a-play-i-for_693641.png) > [The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/the-final-evaluation-of-a-play-has-nothing-to-do-with-immediate/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15e/edward-albee-1684_audience_the-final-evaluation-of-a-play-has-nothi_794666.png) > [The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/the-playwright-along-with-any-writer-composer-painter-in-this-society/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35f/edward-albee-1684_aesthetics_the-playwright-along-with-any-writer-com_1251017.jpg) > [I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/i-find-relatively-little-relationship-between-the-work-of-art-and-the/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/690/edward-albee-1684_art_i-find-relatively-little-relationship-be_2426068.png) > [I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/i-find-that-in-the-course-of-the-day-when-i-m-writing-after-three-or/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9d/edward-albee-1684_courses_i-find-that-in-the-course-of-the-day-whe_2479850.jpg) ## Other authors on Critical ## More by Edward Albee > [School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/school-curricula-that-ignore-the-arts-produce-highly-educated/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/when-a-critic-sets-himself-up-as-an-arbiter-of-morality-a-judge-of/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/when-people-don-t-like-the-way-a-play-ends-they-re-likely-to-blame/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/in-a-democracy-you-cannot-stop-public-access-to-that-art-that-will/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/creativity-is-magic-don-t-examine-it-too-closely/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/when-people-can-t-abide-things-as-they-are-when-they-can-t-abide-the/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [“Lady, you can’t fuck a metaphor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/lady-you-can-t-fuck-a-metaphor/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [I write to find out what I'm talking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/i-write-to-find-out-what-i-m-talking-about/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/i-know-playwrights-who-like-to-kid-themselves-into-saying-that-their/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/the-greatest-problem-with-irish-wolfhounds-though-is-that-they-don-t/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/dashed-hopes-and-good-intentions-good-better-best-bested/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/writing-has-got-to-be-an-act-of-discovery-i-write-to-find-out-what-i/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/i-m-back-in-fashion-again-for-a-while-now-but-i-imagine-that-three-or/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/what-people-really-want-in-the-theater-is-fantasy-involvement-and-not/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) > [Art should never try to be popular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/art-should-never-try-to-be-popular/) [Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/critical/edward-albee/#itemlist", "name": "6 Critical Quotes By Edward Albee", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours - things that have less to do with his artistic work than have to do with the critical and aesthetic environment - that perhaps he does have to worry about whether or not he is writing too fast. 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