Robert Wilson Quotes
Top 60 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Robert Wilson on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!
If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?
Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.
When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.
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.
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.
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 grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
Eva was a between-the-lines talker. She left the sayable unsaid and said what she meant without saying it.
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.
Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.
There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'
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.
Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly.
Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.