Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson
An American author, philosopher, psychologist, and essayist, he co-authored The Illuminatus! Trilogy with Robert Shea. His other popular works include Schrodinger's Cat (a novel) and Wilhelm Reich in Hell (a play).
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 January 1932
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.
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Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.
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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.
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I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera.
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I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements.
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All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: "Just lie down on the floor and keep calm.
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Hedonic Engineering -- The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. . . . Idealists regarded everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.
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Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
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In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.
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I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.
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Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'
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I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.
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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.