When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. — Robert Wilson Ancient Copy Share Image
“The portuguese never put anything behind them except a chair to eat lunch.” — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions. — Robert Wilson Art Copy Share Image
I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it. — Robert Wilson Career Copy Share Image
My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people. — Robert Wilson Choreography Copy Share Image
I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
“Boldly fruity, but clean and dry. The spice holding from the top to the bottom, as long as an Atlantic cruise.” — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions. — Robert Wilson Actor Copy Share Image
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always… — Robert Wilson Abstract Copy Share Image
I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people… — Robert Wilson Arts Copy Share Image
Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
“Loss is like a shrapnel wound, I said, where the piece of metal's got stuck in a place where the surgeons daren't… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.' — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. — Robert Wilson Landscape Copy Share Image
