Top 78 Quotes by Robert Wilson

About Robert Wilson

These are some quotes by American author Robert Wilson Director, who was born on October 4, 1941.

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.

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.

Robert Wilson

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

Robert Wilson

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

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

Robert Wilson

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

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

Robert Wilson

I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.

I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.

Robert Wilson

If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?

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

In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world.

In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world.

Robert Wilson

What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.

Robert Wilson

If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way.

If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way.

Robert Wilson

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