Peter Greenaway Quotes
Perhaps, sadly, in the end, cinema is only a translator's art, and you know what they say about translators: traitors all.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
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You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
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...when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.
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Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.
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Perhaps, sadly, in the end, cinema is only a translator's art, and you know what they say about translators: traitors all.
