94 Quotes by Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

My work is formal, not based on psychology.

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.

. . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.

Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with.

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.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I'm mad but not ill.

On local issues, it is extremely important to run as an independent so that you can do what is right for the city rather than following a political agenda,