Robert Wilson Quotes

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

My work should be seen as poetry.

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.

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture imagine where things can happen in space.

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.