Time & Perspective Quote by Max Cannon

"That's not so important to me, that time thing" is the kind of offhand dismissal that reads casual until you notice how much it’s doing. Coming from an artist, it’s less a metaphysical claim than a stance: a refusal to let the clock be the boss of meaning. The phrasing matters. "That time thing" intentionally demotes time from a force to a fad, like some annoying trend other people obsess over. It’s comedy as defense mechanism, a shrug that doubles as a manifesto.

The intent can be practical: art-making rarely obeys neat schedules, and creative credibility is often built on resisting productivity metrics. But the subtext is sharper. Time is where scarcity lives, where markets attach price tags to attention, and where institutions demand timelines: deadlines, career arcs, relevance cycles, the constant pressure to "capitalize" before the moment passes. Cannon’s line pushes back against that entire machinery by treating it as optional.

There’s also a quiet vulnerability inside the bravado. You don’t downplay time unless you feel its bite - aging, loss, missed chances, the anxiety that you’re behind. The quote dodges that panic by changing the frame: if time isn’t important, then lateness isn’t failure, and slow work isn’t wasted life. In a culture that turns every minute into a KPI, the line lands as both a flex and a coping strategy: a small, sly reclamation of tempo, attention, and permission to move at human speed.