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Robert Wilson Quotes

I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people Picture Quote #1

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art Picture Quote #1

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions Picture Quote #1

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens Picture Quote #1

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas Picture Quote #1

I’ve always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative Picture Quote #1

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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? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The French, not the Americans, commissioned ‘Einstein on the Beach.’ Picture Quote #1

My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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.’ Picture Quote #1

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I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, ‘You’re so cold when you perform,’ and she said, ‘You didn’t listen to the voice.’ She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it Picture Quote #1

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it’s all one body of work Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I’ve always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama Picture Quote #1

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I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people (Robert Wilson Quotes) When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art (Robert Wilson Quotes) The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions (Robert Wilson Quotes) I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens (Robert Wilson Quotes) As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas (Robert Wilson Quotes) I’ve always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative (Robert Wilson Quotes) 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? (Robert Wilson Quotes) 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. (Robert Wilson Quotes) The French, not the Americans, commissioned ‘Einstein on the Beach.’ (Robert Wilson Quotes) My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions (Robert Wilson Quotes) 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. (Robert Wilson Quotes) 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.’ (Robert Wilson Quotes) I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, ‘You’re so cold when you perform,’ and she said, ‘You didn’t listen to the voice.’ She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face. (Robert Wilson Quotes) 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 Quotes) I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it. (Robert Wilson Quotes) Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it’s all one body of work. (Robert Wilson Quotes) 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. (Robert Wilson Quotes) 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. (Robert Wilson Quotes) 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. (Robert Wilson Quotes) I’ve always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama (Robert Wilson Quotes)