"I wanted to make a cinema of ideas,……" — Peter Greenaway
"I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing."
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71 Quotes by Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway has 71 quotes on this site.
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We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
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Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that,…
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What are you -- some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...
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I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.
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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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If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
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It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one…
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My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread…
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We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies.…
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An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than…
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Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I…
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I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce…
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes…
— Peter Vidmar
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and…
— Albert Einstein
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new…
— Oscar Wilde
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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative…
— Edwin Land
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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
— Barnett Newman
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An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful…
— Tim Benton
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust…
— Werner Herzog
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The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science…
— Louis Althusser
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I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because…
— Sally Mann
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