I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine the structure of the play. By which is meant, I suspect, only that the unconscious mind has done its work so thoroughly that the play just has to be filtered through the conscious mind. But there's… — Edward Albee Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
