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

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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? "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements. "

" All theater is dance. "

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

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

" 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. "

" I think that I've always been a kind of structured person. "

" 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. "

" Most theater tells you what to think. "

" I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making. "

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

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

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