Robert Wilson Quotes

38 quotes in 382 categories

• I want to work with Jay-Z.
• I think mystery... allows us time to dream.
• I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.
• My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.
• I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.
• Most theater tells you what to think.
• My work should be seen as poetry.
• All theater is dance.
• I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.
• 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…
• When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.
• The mind is a muscle.
• 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…
• I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed.
• 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…
• As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.
• Chairs are like sculpture.
• I do still collect chairs.

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