Top 78 Quotes by Robert Wilson

Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly.

My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.

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.

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.

I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.

My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

I do still collect chairs.

Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with.

My work should be seen as poetry.

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?'