I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people. — Robert Wilson Alone Copy Share Image
I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the… — Robert Wilson Art Copy Share Image
I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things… — Robert Wilson Artist Copy Share Image
It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
“Eva was a between-the-lines talker. She left the sayable unsaid and said what she meant without saying it.” — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
“The chinese character for "strife" is represented by two women under the same roof.” — Robert Wilson Feminism Copy Share Image
There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!' — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as… — Robert Wilson Baroque Copy Share Image
To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her,… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. — Robert Wilson Artist Copy Share Image
By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how… — Robert Wilson Art Copy Share Image
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where… — Robert Wilson Actor Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand… — Robert Wilson Art Copy Share Image
“They crossed the Mondego and Dao rivers to Viseu and headed south to Coimbra and Leiria.” — Robert Wilson Amor Copy Share Image
If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have… — Robert Wilson Bird Copy Share Image
Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text. — Robert Wilson Acting Copy Share Image
I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Wilson Awareness Copy Share Image
Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite.… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
