Peter Greenaway Quotes
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Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
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Benedictus bene dicap bene asian christian dominum nostrum amen.
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Leaving slowly, / sucking in cold air round a warm tongue, / ennui synchronized to the pulse, / reports from a coiled trachea, / It is only irregular clocks...
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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 floorboards point in parallel lines to a vanishing point that does not concern us - somewhere beyond the opera house, across the streets, across the houses of the suburbs, all the way to a hypothetical single dot... on the sea's horizon. Far from this sour drama.
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'What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...'
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I'm a Darwinian.
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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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To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.
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It's like Shelley. Like Werther. Like a Japanese Ophelia. Like a beautiful Oriental Lady in the Lake.
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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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Too late. Too late to retreat. Your heart is open. The book has got you. Your body is wide open. This rat of a book has invaded your privacy, worried its feeling into your entrails by every private passage.
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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...
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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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Cinema: An illusion that can only satisfactorily happen in the dark.
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I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.
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In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.
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The film begins with a visual list of eight and a half Japanese Pachinko Parlours filmed in several Japanese cities - Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto.
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 37 ...
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Cleverness: A predisposition to irritate excessively.
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Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
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Grief: An emotional experience often brought about by a great sense of loss. The subject of this loss is completely immaterial.
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Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.