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" I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements. "

Robert Wilson

Short

Child

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" It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. "

" 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? "

" I want to work with Jay-Z. "

" I do still collect chairs. "

" Light is architectural. It is sculptural. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Robert Wilson

Life

History

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

" Most theater tells you what to think. "

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

" I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it. "

" 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

Never

Kind

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Robert Wilson

Lose

Audience

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

Thought

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

" 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! "

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

" 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 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

Day

People