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

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" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" All theater is dance. "

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

" Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.' "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

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

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

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

" 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'm an artist, not a philosopher. "

" Chairs are like sculpture. "

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

" Light is architectural. It is sculptural. "

" Most theater tells you what to think. "

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

" My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream. "

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

" 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?' "

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

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

" 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.' "