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
fast life theater
My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.
hear mean
If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?
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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.
call schools
There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'
interested
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 never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.
art
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.
theater
To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'
compelling man performance says sit though visual
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.
cotton history life marriages plantation recorded southern washing work
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.
supposed
I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.
artists people understand
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!
few journal remain time
One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.
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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.