Robert Wilson

Chairs are like sculpture.

— Robert Wilson

Light is architectural. It is sculptural.

— Robert Wilson

All theater is dance.

— Robert Wilson

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

— Robert Wilson

Most theater tells you what to think.

— Robert Wilson

I want to work with Jay-Z.

— Robert Wilson

I do still collect chairs.

— Robert Wilson

My work should be seen as poetry.

— Robert Wilson

When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.

— Robert Wilson

I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person.

— Robert Wilson

I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.

— Robert Wilson

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

— Robert Wilson

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

— Robert Wilson

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

— Robert Wilson

There hasn't been a great romance in my life.

— Robert Wilson

The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.'

— Robert Wilson

“Eva was a between-the-lines talker. She left the sayable unsaid and said what she meant without saying it.”

— Robert Wilson

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.

— Robert Wilson

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

— Robert Wilson

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

“Boldly fruity, but clean and dry. The spice holding from the top to the bottom, as long as an Atlantic cruise.”

— Robert Wilson

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

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the…

— Robert Wilson

My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.

— Robert Wilson

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the…

— Robert Wilson

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

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

If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as…

— Robert Wilson

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

Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I…

— Robert Wilson

My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people…

— Robert Wilson

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

“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

The mind is a muscle.

— Robert Wilson

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

— Robert Wilson

I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed.

— Robert Wilson

“The portuguese never put anything behind them except a chair to eat lunch.”

— Robert Wilson

My work is formal, not based on psychology.

— Robert Wilson

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

— Robert Wilson

We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.

— Robert Wilson