Edward Albee Quotes

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are influenced by these books.

I know when somebody's heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

Great art inspires great art.

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

I was never so directly inspired by fashion. It always came from somewhere else.

I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

I think you have a responsibility as an artist to continually reach a hand out and try and inspire people.

It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D.

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

We think it's a blessing that we were able to bring our music to the world. That our music has not only inspired our communities but other communities. That's one of the greatest things an artist in any field could know: that you've touched the mind of another artist.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.