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" I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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! "

" Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. "

" The mind is a muscle. "

" My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions. "

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

" There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!' "

" The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.' "

" 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. "

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

" I do still collect chairs. "

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

" 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. "

" When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies. "

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

" The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.' "

" 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. "

" The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space. "

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

" I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people. "

" I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. "

" 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 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. "

" I think that I've always been a kind of structured person. "