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.
Interpretation
Experience is a better teacher than traditional study.
Robert Wilson emphasizes the importance of practical experience over formal education in the realm of theatre. He suggests that actively engaging in the art form has led him to create unique works that might not have emerged from a conventional studying approach, highlighting the value of experiential learning in creative fields.
In practice
In an artist's talk about their creative process.
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?'
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'.
It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.
Color transmits and translates emotion.
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