“There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they a...” — Robert Wilson Quote

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

“Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.”

“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 I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.”

“I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.”

“Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.”