Peter Greenaway Quotes
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It is an awesome sight, repeatedly drawn and painted. How long did it last, this Fall of Angels? Was it all over in an hour? Or did it take days, weeks, years? Is it still going on?
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Farewells can be both beautiful and despicable. Saying farewell to one who is loved is very complicated.
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There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film - certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.
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My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish.
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I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.
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Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and de-limited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules, and games we call Civilisation … the rules and the games are often absurd and farcical - sometimes they are tragic - yet we tacitly acknowledge that they are necessary.
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Go on. Treat me like the page of a book. Your book.
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I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.
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I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
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A is for Adam and E is for Eve. B is for bile, blood and bones.
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All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil.
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It is a most unexpected Earthquake in Geneva.
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Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.
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We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
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This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
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'What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...'
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For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a medium whose total, sole responsibility is the world as seen as a form of visual intelligence. Surely, surely, surely the cinema should be that phenomenon.
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A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
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Dots ...: Small marks variously made to indicate infinity, hesitation, duplication, or lack of imagination.
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We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
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I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
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When I was young I hated my body because it was so thin - now I try not to look at it too much because it's so old. There perhaps might have been just six months when I felt comfortable with it - when I discovered alcohol for the first time and learnt to drive and was fattening out and had just met your mother.
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'Money's not interesting - too easy to get hold of.'
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I loved Latin - the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history - but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. … In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin - a subject I loved - really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved.