1941-, American Theater Director, Designer
Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
Robert Wilson – [Belief]
Hedonic Engineering — The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?
Robert Wilson – [Engineering]
No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.
Robert Wilson – [Self-discovery]
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
Robert Wilson – [Intelligence and Intellectuals]
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Robert Wilson – [Arts and Artists]
The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.
Robert Wilson – [Freedom]