Edward Albee Quotes

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

Art and life are inseparable.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

Congress is back in season.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.