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" 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. "

Robert Wilson

Time

Nature

Clouds

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" All theater is dance. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite. "

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Wilson

Artist

Philosopher

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

" 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! "

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

" 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

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

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

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

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

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Town

Where

" 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