Peter Greenaway Quotes & Sayings

“As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.”

“I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.”

“I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.”

“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.”

“The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.”

“All religions have always hated females.”

“Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.”

“Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.”

“For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.”

“I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.”