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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

Mother

Time

Great

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" Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource. "

" 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? "

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

Robert Wilson

Town

Where

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

Robert Wilson

Artist

Philosopher

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

" I want to work with Jay-Z. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Chairs are like sculpture. "

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Chairs

Sculpture

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Robert Wilson

Lose

Audience

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

" 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! "

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

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

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

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

" Light is architectural. It is sculptural. "

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

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