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" I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens. "

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Light is architectural. It is sculptural. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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?' "

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

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

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

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

" I do still collect chairs. "

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

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