Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text. "
Robert Wilson
Everything
Acting
Work
Related Quotes:
" My work is formal, not based on psychology. "
Robert Wilson
Formal
Work
Psychology
" I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things. "
Robert Wilson
Many
Nature
Just
" Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do! "
Robert Wilson
Think
Understand
People
" I think that I've always been a kind of structured person. "
Robert Wilson
Think
Person
Been
" I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to do a play that would run for days. I don't think time is that important. Nature doesn't hurry the sky, the changing clouds and sunsets. "
Robert Wilson
Time
Nature
Clouds
" Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. "
Robert Wilson
Body
Christopher
Work
" The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.' "
Robert Wilson
Commissioned
Beach
French
" I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. "
Robert Wilson
Pace
Life
Looking
" Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.' "
Robert Wilson
Texas
Know
Me
" In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world. "
Robert Wilson
World
Trying
Change The World
" Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated. "
Robert Wilson
Man
Words
Think
" I'm an artist, not a philosopher. "
Robert Wilson
Artist
Philosopher
" I want to work with Jay-Z. "
Robert Wilson
Jay-Z
Work
Want
" My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school. "
Robert Wilson
Mother
Time
Great
" It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. "
Robert Wilson
Important
Something
New
" To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?' "
Robert Wilson
Me
Something
Ask
" If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. "
Robert Wilson
Before
Things
Slow
" I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism. "
Robert Wilson
Naturalism
Who
Supposed
" I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex. "
Robert Wilson
Time
Interesting
Work
" I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making. "
Robert Wilson
Am
Never
Kind
" As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. "
Robert Wilson
Growing Up
Texas
Man
" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "
Robert Wilson
Egypt
Look
Ancient
" I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements. "
Robert Wilson
Short
Child
Me
" I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community. "
Robert Wilson
Town
Where
Up
" The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. "
Robert Wilson
Work
Light
Sky
" The mind is a muscle. "
Robert Wilson
Muscle
Mind
" If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way. "
Robert Wilson
You
Way
See
" Chairs are like sculpture. "
Robert Wilson
Like
Chairs
Sculpture
" Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with. "
Robert Wilson
Love
People
Myself
" At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion? "
Robert Wilson
Thought
End
Theatre