Peter Greenaway Quotes

I'm an excuse for medical experiments and art theory. You must get me out of here and out of the hospital.

Peter Greenaway

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• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Art
  • May
  • Dream

• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Art
  • Always
  • Blame

• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Art
  • Remember

• A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Nice

• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Law
  • Foolish

• It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Art
  • Control

• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Beauty

• In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Life
  • Art
  • Act

• Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • School
  • Art

• My painting does not come from the easel.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Come

• We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

  

  Walter Crane
  • People
  • Art
  • Free

• For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Art
  • Character
  • Best

• You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Art
  • You
  • Create

• What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself.

  

  Kadir Nelson
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.

  

  Chuck Schuldiner
  • Art
  • Should
  • Existence

• Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death
  • Blow

• The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.

  

  Elizabeth Barton
  • Light
  • Space
  • Balance

• Granting, I say that competition has hitherto been the universal law, the last word, of nature, still if only one man should stand up and say, 'It shall be so no more,' if he should say, 'It is not the last word of my nature, and my acts and life declare that it is not,' then that so-called law would be at an end.

  

  Edward Carpenter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nature

• I'm an excuse for medical experiments and art theory. You must get me out of here and out of the hospital.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Art