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" I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it. "
Robert Wilson
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" When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm an artist, not a philosopher. "
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" I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it. "
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" I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera. "
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" If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. "
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" Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource. "
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" As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. "
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" My work is formal, not based on psychology. "
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" I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. "
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" The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions. "
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" We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go. "
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" 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. "
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Child
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" Most theater tells you what to think. "
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" I think mystery... allows us time to dream. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.' "
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" What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures. "
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" Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite. "
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" I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day. "
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" I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. "
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" I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people. "
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" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "
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" The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.' "
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" 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. "
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" I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face. "
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