Robert Wilson Quotes

You can observe a lot by watching.

We must look a long time before we can see.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

I am unobservant.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

I'm just someone who observes a lot.

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.

I'm always going to keep my eyes open.

I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.

I try to watch everybody.

I'm the kind of person where I always digest everything around me.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.