I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. — Robert Wilson Always Copy Share Image
I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens. — Robert Wilson Always Copy Share Image
If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. — Robert Wilson Before 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 Am 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 Dies Copy Share Image
I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. — Robert Wilson Alternative Copy Share Image
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. — Robert Wilson Always 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 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 Collect 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 About 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
At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in… — Robert Wilson Away 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 Complex 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
My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a… — Robert Wilson Because 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 Any Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation,… — Robert Wilson American woman 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 Ask 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 About Copy Share Image
I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people. — Robert Wilson Alone 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 Any Copy Share Image
I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work. — Robert Wilson About Copy Share Image
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. — Robert Wilson Classic Copy Share Image
I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the… — Robert Wilson Ahead Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community. — Robert Wilson Community Copy Share Image
Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most… — Robert Wilson Actor 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 Aware 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 Actually Copy Share Image
Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. — Robert Wilson Artist Copy Share Image
“The chinese character for "strife" is represented by two women under the same roof.” — Robert Wilson Feminism Copy Share Image
As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. — Robert Wilson Boots 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
