When you’re playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies. Robert Wilson Read Quote
Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated. Robert Wilson Read Quote
As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. Robert Wilson Read Quote
I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. Robert Wilson Read Quote
Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite. Robert Wilson Read Quote
When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting. Robert Wilson Read Quote
