25 Peter Greenaway Quotes for You to Enjoy

Peter Greenaway

British Director

Born: Apr 5, 1942

Always Cinema People Think World You

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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. Peter Greenaway

Art Wonderful Think Medium Worries Ways About Exciting Most Learn Always Curious Being Apology Used Teaching Being Used

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse. Peter Greenaway

Blessing Know Die Going Curse

We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema. Peter Greenaway

Cinema Need

I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy. Peter Greenaway

Dreams Respect Before Few Every Think Considered Destroy Giants Must Only Never Never Forget Came Exist Very Forget Artist Achieved After Which Forms Us Shoulders Standing Who Even

All religions have always hated females. Peter Greenaway

All Religions Religions Hated Always Females

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. Peter Greenaway

Else Must Someone Insists Writes Read Diary Anybody Who

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible. Peter Greenaway

Work Education Bible Extraordinary Books Chapel Out Lays Sistine Early

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein. Peter Greenaway

Always Been Fascinated

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80. Peter Greenaway

Age Think Remotely Done Anyone After Anything Useful Who

English culture is highly literary-based. Peter Greenaway

Culture Highly English

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them. Peter Greenaway

People Obviously Irritate Them

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end. Peter Greenaway

Cinema End Means Many Filmmakers

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. Peter Greenaway

Theatre Intelligence World Cinema Responsibility Seen Down Medium Lyric Sole Visual Find Total Poetry Had Surely Years Text Hands Form Meaning Should Novel Whose Phenomenon

Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.' Peter Greenaway

Religion You Worry Hey Say Afterlife

I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. Peter Greenaway

Every Prime Artist Want Should Creator

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. Peter Greenaway

Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them. Peter Greenaway

People Most Understand How Them Manufacture Illiterate Interpret Images

We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is. Peter Greenaway

Change Important Looking Seeing More Put Emphasis How Educational Lot

Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory. Peter Greenaway

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition. Peter Greenaway

Cinema Increasingly Proposition Naive Demands Disbelief Suspension Which

I think there is no future whatsoever in 3D. It does nothing to the grammar and syntax or vocabulary of cinema. And you get fed up with it in exactly 3 minutes. Peter Greenaway

Future You Cinema Nothing Think Syntax Exactly Minutes No Future Vocabulary Fed Fed Up Does Up Get Whatsoever Grammar

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