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I think mystery... allows us time to dream.
- Robert Wilson
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#Mystery
#Think
#Time
#Us
I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live.
- Robert Wilson
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#Living
#People
#Way
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Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'
- Robert Wilson
#Founder
#Know
#Me
#Money
#Speak
I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.
- Robert Wilson
#Dinner
#Face
#Man
#Place
#Voice
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
#Humour
#King
#Little
#Tragedy
#Will
As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.
- Robert Wilson
#Boots
#Christmas
#Man
#Young Man
#Young
I'm an artist, not a philosopher.
- Robert Wilson
#Artist
#Philosopher
Most theater tells you what to think.
- Robert Wilson
#Most
#Tells
#Theater
#Think
#You
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 time.
- Robert Wilson
#Diary
#Doing
#Things
#Time
#Will
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 world.
- Robert Wilson
#Awareness
#Going
#Much
#New
#World
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.
- Robert Wilson
#Always
#Narrative
#Than
#Theme
#Through
I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to do a play that would run for days. I don't think time is that important. Nature doesn't hurry the sky, the changing clouds and sunsets.
- Robert Wilson
#Clouds
#Important
#Nature
#Sky
#Time
I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.
- Robert Wilson
#Best
#Drawing
#Furniture
#Stage
#Words
We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.
- Robert Wilson
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#Audience
#Go
#Lose
Light is architectural. It is sculptural.
- Robert Wilson
#Architectural
#Light
#Sculptural
The mind is a muscle.
- Robert Wilson
#Mind
#Muscle
If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?
- Robert Wilson
#Mean
#See
#Singing
#Something
#Sunset
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.
- Robert Wilson
#Ancient
#Art
#Back
#Egypt
#Look
The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.'
- Robert Wilson
#Beach
#Commissioned
#Einstein
#French
I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.
- Robert Wilson
#Always
#Architecture
#Been
#Drama
#Music
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 in space.
- Robert Wilson
#Actor
#Architecture
#Know
#Space
#Will
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 an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.
- Robert Wilson
#Eyes
#Look
#Man
#Me
#Words
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