Peter Greenaway Quotes
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A is for Adam and E is for Eve. B is for bile, blood and bones.
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The pages are so harmonious in their proportion / disharmony in the contents is impossible.
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'Money's not interesting - too easy to get hold of.'
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In the game of Dawn Card-Castles, fifty-two playing cards are stacked up into a castle in a draught-free space: the player can determine the dreams of the next night if he awakes before the castle collapses. Those players who wish to dream of Romance build their castle with the seven of hearts.
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Esmerelda, the grieving widow, continues to burn and scream. In our minds we rush to save her from the consuming flames. But cannot.
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Dots ...: Small marks variously made to indicate infinity, hesitation, duplication, or lack of imagination.
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Men are so shit scared of female activities, especially if they are clandestine.
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Obviously, I am the cook. The cook is the director. He arranges the menu, the seating order of the guests; he gives refuge to the lovers; he prepares the repast of the lover's body. The cook is a perfectionist and a rationalist, a portrait of myself.
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Benedictus bene dicap bene asian christian dominum nostrum amen.
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As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
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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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'You could spend a lifetime reading in here.'
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All religions have always hated females.
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This drawing is three quarters ball, one quarter philosopher, which might be about the right space to keep a philosopher in his place.
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The book to end all books. The final book. After this, there is no more writing, no more publishing.
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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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Twenty-four pulleys, one hundred counterweights / two lenses, dark shadows...
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Why illustrate a great piece of writing whose very advocacy and evocation and efficacy lies within its very existence as writing?
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It is the trajectory of a thrown stone. It follows the hump of a humped-back whale from nose to tail. It's bounded like a smooth, sheep-cropped, grassy hill. It is a graph-line through a grey, blue, and then a grey again, sky.
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It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It does not exist at all in nature; it is a construct made by us, and I wonder whether we need the narrative anymore.
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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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I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.
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A series of ever-decreasing splashes drip and plop into black water... thus the beginning of the film is reprised.
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Prospero has always felt most at ease in a study, surrounded by books.