Peter Greenaway Quotes
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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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A is for Adam and E is for Eve. B is for bile, blood and bones.
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There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.
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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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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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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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Men are so shit scared of female activities, especially if they are clandestine.
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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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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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I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
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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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'You could spend a lifetime reading in here.'
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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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Twenty-four pulleys, one hundred counterweights / two lenses, dark shadows...
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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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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.
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I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.
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'What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...'
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It is Vesalius' Anatomy of Birth - a book of drawings and diagrams of human anatomy. Beautiful drawings but - as the pages turn - terrible in their frankness...