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" 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
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" Most theater tells you what to think. "
Robert Wilson
Tells
Theater
You
" 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. "
Robert Wilson
Day
Me
People
" I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it. "
Robert Wilson
Career
Idea
No Idea
" I do still collect chairs. "
Robert Wilson
Still
Chairs
Collect
" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "
Robert Wilson
Egypt
Look
Ancient
" 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
" I'm an artist, not a philosopher. "
Robert Wilson
Artist
Philosopher
" I want to work with Jay-Z. "
Robert Wilson
Jay-Z
Work
Want
" The mind is a muscle. "
Robert Wilson
Muscle
Mind
" My work is formal, not based on psychology. "
Robert Wilson
Formal
Work
Psychology
" 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 usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person. "
Robert Wilson
Stay
Party
Much
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting. "
Robert Wilson
Painting
Family
Life
" In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world. "
Robert Wilson
World
Trying
Change The World
" I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence. "
Robert Wilson
Work
Same
Way
" 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
" Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. "
Robert Wilson
Find
Opera
Myself
" 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
" If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. "
Robert Wilson
Before
Things
Slow
" I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people. "
Robert Wilson
People
Alone
Always
" The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.' "
Robert Wilson
Commissioned
Beach
French
" Light is architectural. It is sculptural. "
Robert Wilson
Architectural
Sculptural
Light
" By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell. "
Robert Wilson
Leadership
Society
Value
" There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!' "
Robert Wilson
Decoration
Call
Burn
" I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge. "
Robert Wilson
Little
Ring
World
" The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. "
Robert Wilson
Work
Light
Sky