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" 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. "

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" I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. "

" 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. "

" In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy. "

" If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? "

" I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism. "

" When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity. "

" 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. "

" I do still collect chairs. "

" 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. "

" I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work. "

" I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence. "

" Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people. "

" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens. "

" If we lose our culture, we lose our memory. "

" There hasn't been a great romance in my life. "

" I want to work with Jay-Z. "

" New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world. "

" Most theater tells you what to think. "

" If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. "

" 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? "

" I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words. "

" I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community. "