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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.


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.


I'm an artist, not a philosopher.


All theater is dance.


The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.


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!


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


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.


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.


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?'


When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.


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


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?'


Chairs are like sculpture.


I do still collect chairs.


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


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


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.


Light is architectural. It is sculptural.


My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.