Peter Greenaway Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• What do you want art to give you? What do you want cultural experience to give you? Shouldn't it be in-depth, profound experiences which have some satisfaction and can be retained in your four senses and your imagination for the rest of your life?

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Giving, Profound

• To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.

  Peter Greenaway

  Religious, Atheist, Responsibility

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.116, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema is best served away from documentary neo-realism. I come from a tradition of post-post-Italian neo-realism in England, where we've produced the best television in the world. But to paraphrase Truffaut, the English have no visual imagination.

  Peter Greenaway

  Italian, Imagination, Cinema

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