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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. "

Robert Wilson

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People

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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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" As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. "

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

" 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. "

" Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text. "

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

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

" I want to work with Jay-Z. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" All theater is dance. "

Robert Wilson

Dance

Theater

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

" Most theater tells you what to think. "

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

" The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions. "

" I think mystery... allows us time to dream. "

" 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? "

" We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go. "

Robert Wilson

Lose

Audience

" I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. "

" 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. "

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

" I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Chairs are like sculpture. "

Robert Wilson

Chairs

Sculpture

" I'm an artist, not a philosopher. "

Robert Wilson

Artist

Philosopher

" The mind is a muscle. "

Robert Wilson

Muscle

Mind