Peter Greenaway Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

  Peter Greenaway

  Trying, Use, Chaos

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances where many different perspectives could be brought to bear on a series of phenomena associated with the topics under consideration. Yet all the time it was a subjective creation under the auspices of light and sound, dealing with a large slice of cinema's vocabulary.

  Peter Greenaway

  Moving, Opportunity, Vocabulary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

  Peter Greenaway

  Names, Clay, Creation

  Peter Greenaway, Sei Shōnagon (1996). “The pillow book”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

• There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Cinema, Film

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

• The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

  Peter Greenaway

  Humble, Men, Creation Of Man

  "Fear of Drowning By Numbers". Book by Peter Greenaway, 1991.

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