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

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" 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. "

" Chairs are like sculpture. "

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

" 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? "

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

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

" When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity. "

" I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person. "

" 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. "

" I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism. "

" I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day. "

" I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to do a play that would run for days. I don't think time is that important. Nature doesn't hurry the sky, the changing clouds and sunsets. "

" My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream. "

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

" There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!' "

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

" Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do! "

" Most theater tells you what to think. "

" 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've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. "

" The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.' "

" I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things. "

" My work is formal, not based on psychology. "

" I'm an artist, not a philosopher. "

" I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge. "

" I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex. "

" 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?' "

" I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. "

" There hasn't been a great romance in my life. "