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Letter "P" » Peter Greenaway Quotes
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«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.»
Author: Peter Greenaway
«I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.»
Author: Peter Greenaway
«My father died. His ornithological knowledge, never collected or collated in anything like a comprehensible book - it was five suitcases and two trunks of scattered notes - died with him. A loss of knowledge. I made a film in small part reparation.»
Author: Peter Greenaway
«I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.»
Author: Peter Greenaway
«These days more films are going to people than people are going to films,»
Author: Peter Greenaway
«_Prospero's Books_ is the _Terminator 2_ for intellectuals.»
Author: Peter Greenaway
«You don't go into the National Gallery of any famous capital city and cry, sob, laugh, fall about on the floor, become very angry - it's a completely different reaction. It's a reaction which is to do with a much more composed sense of regarding an image; it's a reaction with a thought process as opposed to an immediate emotional reaction.»
Author: Peter Greenaway
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