Robert Wilson Quotes

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• I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
• I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.
• 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…
• I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment.
• The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.
• 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 had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.
• In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.
• 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…
• My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.
• My work is formal, not based on psychology.
• 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…
• Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not…
• 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…
• Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
• If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put…
• 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…
• Light is architectural. It is sculptural.
• When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.
• If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

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