Historian Quote by Peter Greenaway

“There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.”

Peter Greenaway

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American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?

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

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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…

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An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A…

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I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.

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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…

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A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

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I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

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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.

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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…

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There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We…

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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…

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We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

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The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of…

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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

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The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect…

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The historian amputates reality.

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The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians…

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All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

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If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,…

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