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" 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. "

Robert Wilson

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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! "

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

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

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

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

Robert Wilson

Town

Where

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

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

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

" I do still collect chairs. "

" 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. "

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

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

Robert Wilson

Artist

Philosopher

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

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

" The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. "

" Chairs are like sculpture. "

Robert Wilson

Chairs

Sculpture

" If we lose our culture, we lose our memory. "

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

" 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?' "

Robert Wilson

Something

Ask

" 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

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

" The mind is a muscle. "

Robert Wilson

Muscle

Mind