Edward Albee Response Quotations

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the audience response - not necessarily to learn anything about his craft, but as often as not merely to find out about the temper of the time, what is being tolerated, what is being permitted.

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.