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" Chairs are like sculpture. "
Robert Wilson
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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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" The mind is a muscle. "
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" 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. "
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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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" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "
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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 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. "
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" The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. "
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" If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? "
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" I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person. "
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" Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. "
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" 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! "
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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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" I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work. "
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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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" 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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Me
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" 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. "
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" I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism. "
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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 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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" I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" My work is formal, not based on psychology. "
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" It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. "
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" I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens. "
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" I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence. "
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