Robert Wilson Quotes

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.

I see too deep and too much.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.

The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.

If it's simple simple, it's boring. We try for the idea that is so simple that it will make you think and rethink.

I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.

Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak simply and directly without obfuscation and without being unnecessarily complex or obscure?

I think it's OK that everyone's not real heavy and wordy and heady.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

No art should be fashionable.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

All the great things are simple.

It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.