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" I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person. "
Robert Wilson
Stay
Party
Much
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" My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world? "
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" I want to work with Jay-Z. "
Robert Wilson
Jay-Z
Work
Want
" My work is formal, not based on psychology. "
Robert Wilson
Formal
Work
Psychology
" I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. "
Robert Wilson
Pace
Life
Looking
" When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity. "
Robert Wilson
Lose
Get
Intellectual
" 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
" My work should be seen as poetry. "
Robert Wilson
Seen
Should
Poetry
" We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go. "
Robert Wilson
Lose
Audience
Go
" In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy. "
Robert Wilson
Cultural
Policy
Unlike
" I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence. "
Robert Wilson
Work
Same
Way
" 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
" 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
" What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?' "
Robert Wilson
Always
Me
Thought
" 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. "
Robert Wilson
Important
Start
Language
" 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. "
Robert Wilson
Face
Book
Dinner
" The mind is a muscle. "
Robert Wilson
Muscle
Mind
" 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
Walk
Did
Stand
" One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time. "
Robert Wilson
Diary
Will
Time
" I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live. "
Robert Wilson
Live
Living
People
" I'm an artist, not a philosopher. "
Robert Wilson
Artist
Philosopher
" The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. "
Robert Wilson
Work
Light
Sky
" I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism. "
Robert Wilson
Naturalism
Who
Supposed
" 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
" 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
" I think that I've always been a kind of structured person. "
Robert Wilson
Think
Person
Been
" Most theater tells you what to think. "
Robert Wilson
Tells
Theater
You
" When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies. "
Robert Wilson
Tragedy
Humour
King
" 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
" If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. "
Robert Wilson
Before
Things
Slow