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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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" 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?' "

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

" My work is formal, not based on psychology. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

" The mind is a muscle. "

" 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.' "

" Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. "

" To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world. "

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" My work should be seen as poetry. "

" I do still collect chairs. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person. "