Eduardo Chillida Quotes

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Somewhere out there the world must have an end.

Confine yourself to the present.

The present is a point just passed.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling clearly, and in a way, it pushes you to become present in the present.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.

Something there is that does not love a wall.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.

I'm always thinking about time. That's one of themes I return to in my work, the way the past bears on the present, the way that time is not linear, and how that expresses itself in people's everyday lives.