If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable, the delights of the flesh and the delights of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
What do you want art to give you? What do you want cultural experience to give you? Shouldn't it be in-depth, profound… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
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… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
