The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
Edward AlbeeI think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live with," and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
Edward AlbeeIf I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.
Edward AlbeeIf the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.
Edward AlbeeThe health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that they not have anything to do with anything, that they be our never-never land; and if we demand this same function of our live theatre, what will be left of the visual-auditory arts - save the dance (in which nobody talks) and music (to which nobody listens)?
Edward Albee