Top 78 Quotes by Robert Wilson

Light is architectural. It is sculptural.

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

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.

I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.

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.

When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.