Edward Albee Quotes about Responsibility

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It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into

It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.

Edward Albee

Responsibility, Dark, Artist

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

Edward Albee

Responsibility, Comfort, Aids

Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, "Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.

Edward Albee

Writing, Responsibility, People

Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.36, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.

Edward Albee

Running, Responsibility, Errors

Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.116, Da Capo Press

Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.

Edward Albee

Writing, Responsibility, People

"http://www.achievement.org/achiever/edward-albee/#interview". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 2005.

I 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 Albee

Art, Responsibility, Thinking

Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi