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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Robert Wilson

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

" Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

Robert Wilson

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" I want to work with Jay-Z. "

" 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. "

" 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 first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time. "

" I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence. "

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

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

" I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "

" I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. "

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

" 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! "

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

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

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

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

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

" I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge. "

" 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. "