Robert Wilson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'”

“What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'”

“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.”

“By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.”

“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 am making.”

“All theater is dance.”

“As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.”

“Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.”

“I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge.”

“I do still collect chairs.”