Robert Wilson Quotes

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole generation that doesn't know who I am. So, it's a dichotomy. In some people's minds I may never grow up.

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.

I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don't want them to be dated.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

Time is long but life is short.

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

Forever is a very long time, especially the bit towards the end.

When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

I don't know about timeless. I actually think most of what I do is completely modern, but universally modern. Who decides what timeless even means? Are the things that we consider timeless now going to, in fact, be considered timeless in 300 years? Probably not.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts.

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.