Narrative Quote by Peter Greenaway Download Open image “The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.” — Peter Greenaway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Narrative Painting Stories
I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it and see… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography,… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The… — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
“good art illustrates anything at all, it’s likely to be a story you didn’t even know needed telling.” — David Salle Copy Share Image
I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.” — Scott McClanahan 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 Image
I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds. — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved, especially by… — Jamie Chung Copy Share Image
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
A digital director shouldn't be out front, but a campaign manager's job is to set a narrative. — Brad Parscale Copy Share Image
It's interesting to think about the history of Israel in relation to the history of the U.S.. There were Native Americans living here that… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
