Aesthetics Quote by Edward Albee

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good…

— Noel Coward

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give…

— Ted Lange

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound.…

— Plato

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on…

— Alexander Smith

“If all, or almost all, the plays that are popular now, imaginative works as well as historical ones, are known to be nonsense and…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without wasting words,…

— Voltaire

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee

Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds…

— Paul Theroux

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work…

— Edward Albee

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

— Walter Becker

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

— Laura Wade