Edward Albee Quotes

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.

I've come to trust that what I like is what works.

I don't approach anything I do like an academic. I'm not trained, and I work with intuition a great deal.

I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process.

When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

When I'm working on something, even when I don't know exactly where it's going, I have a sense of what I'd like to make. So maybe doing things right is following that sense even when I stop trusting myself. The rightness is in the process, even if it doesn't match up with my plans.

I can't describe how I make a film. It's organic.

Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition - you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you see in front of it. Your life experience will come through the lens.

I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically. I say what's in my brain, and sometimes it's great, and sometimes it's terrible.

I have no 'dream role.' It just comes to me; it's very intuitive, and I say, 'OK, I have to do this now.' It's not logical; just, 'I have to jump into this very strange character,' or something like that. I can't even explain it.

I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good.

I completely work on the basis of my intuition. I don't think I premeditate a success formula. There is no formula to make a successful film.

I'd listen to a song and say, 'Hang on, I like that piano thing,' so I'd play the guitar like that and get the vibe from it, and it just evolved from the get-go. It was pretty obvious what to do; You don't think about rock n' roll: you just do it.

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.