Peter Greenaway Quotes
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.
Quotes to Explore
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
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Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare it to paint effects found on the streets. This approach is superimposed on a sculptural surface that is also 'painterly.'
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I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
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I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.
