Plays Quotes by Edward Albee

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

— 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…

— Edward Albee

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

— 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.…

— Edward Albee

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

— 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 ...…

— Edward Albee

“Lady, you can’t fuck a metaphor.”

— Edward Albee

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

— 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…

— 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…

— Edward Albee

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

— Edward Albee

Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

— 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…

— Edward Albee

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

— Edward Albee

Art should never try to be popular.

— Edward Albee