Peter Greenaway quotes - page 9

This is the writing of Nagiko Kiyohara no Motosuke Sei Shonagon, and I know you to have blackmailed, violated and humiliated my father. I suspect you also of ruining my husband. You have now committed the greatest crime -- you have desecrated the body of my lover. You and I now know that you have lived long enough. (Peter Greenaway)
Money's not interesting -- too easy to get hold of. View quote
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The letters Z, O and O dominate the front entrance gates of a capital city zoo. They are made of glass and they tower up two giraffes high. They are the width of one elephant and the colour of bottled blue ink. View quote
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Why illustrate a great piece of writing whose very advocacy and evocation and efficacy lies within its very existence as writing? View quote
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Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself. View quote
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No -- but I have a feeling your mother was. View quote
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A little gold and a little charcoal, / A little bone, a little wax. / A little alcohol, a little horror and a little gum. / A little ivory, / a little sulphur, / a little damp dust, / a sluice of fluids. View quote
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Outside in the garden, the greenhouse collapses. Masonry crashes from the roof and splashes into the moat. The grave-marker for the pig Hortense moves up out of the ground. The Maillol statue stands firm as the shrubs around it quiver. A water-main bursts in the yard sending a shower into the air. Trees fall as though whipped down to the ground. The water on the lake shimmers and ripples like a film run backwards. View quote
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Later this device of mirror and mirror-carriers will be developed and many changes rung from its possibilities. View quote
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You have no right to be jealous of a woman who wants to be more of a woman by watching a man dressed up as a woman. View quote
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Raw sex is the last thing you are going to encounter in a Jane Austen woman. (Peter Greenaway)
No -- that's true. But it's an anniversary I shall always celebrate I shall always celebrate even if you won't. And you won't. View quote
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Then I think you have a choice -- please your mother or face criminal charges. View quote
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French Cuisine. By Guillaume Rosart. Publisher Henri Simonel. In 1950 it cost me twenty francs -- about 2 pounds -- about 15 pounds now. View quote
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Too late. Too late to retreat. Your heart is open. The book has got you. Your body is wide open. This rat of a book has invaded your privacy, worried its feeling into your entrails by every private passage. View quote
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Shoes: gloves for the feet. View quote
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This is a book and a body that is so warm to the touch. My touch. View quote
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A long white dress that starts under the breast and travels on interminably down -- so their legs are entirely mysterious -- they could have one leg or two inside that dress... A Jane Austen woman could be incredibly passionate inside that dress. View quote
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The large body of the swan wedged in the shattered glass of the car windscreen fills the film frame. Its head is bent back on itself in a parody of its orthodox gracefulness. View quote
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Painting: Once upon a time a painting was a two-dimensional representation; now it is anything its author thinks is appropriate. View quote
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A thrown-stone trajectory is a good metaphor for so many phenomena: the curve of an event, any event; the curve of a life, any life; the curve of a hypothesis; the curve experienced in the manufacture of a work of art; the curve of interest experienced in the manufacture of a catalogue. (Peter Greenaway)
It tells you how to boil water. What expression to wear when you are eating eggs. How to starve. When to eat. What your first meal should be. What your last meal should be. It says more about death than eating and more about living than cooking. View quote
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His writing -- in so many languages -- made me a sign-post pointing east, west, north and south. I had shoes in German, stockings in French, gloves in Hebrew, a hat with a veil in Italian. He only kept me naked where I was most accustomed to wearing clothes. View quote
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It is the trajectory of a thrown stone. It follows the hump of a humped-back whale from nose to tail. It's bounded like a smooth, sheep-cropped, grassy hill. It is a graph-line through a grey, blue, and then a grey again, sky. View quote
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Two children die. An accident and a suicide amongst so many murders. A chance death and a death of self-recrimination. Smut and the Skipping Girl have been aping their parents and elders -- perhaps they could now teach them a lesson -- all the machinations and game-playing and adjusting for sexual and emotional positioning is not worth the effort. View quote
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