Robert Wilson Quotes & Sayings
78 most famous Robert Wilson quotes and sayings (director). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?”
“Chairs are like sculpture.”
“My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.”
“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.”
“At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion?”
“My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.”
“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.”
“I'm an artist, not a philosopher.”
“My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.”
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