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?’ Robert Wilson Read Quote
There are schools teaching ‘stage decoration’ as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: ‘Burn those schools!’ Robert Wilson Read Quote
At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what’s wrong with illusion? Robert Wilson Read Quote
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. Robert Wilson Read Quote
I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters – a very religious, ultraconservative community. Robert Wilson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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? Robert Wilson Read Quote
