Warning: Undefined array key "visitor_referer_type" in /var/www/vhosts/wordinf.com/core/app/libraries/Core.php on line 98
Peter Greenaway - It is Vesalius' Anatomy of Birth --...
It is Vesalius' Anatomy of Birth -- a book of drawings and diagrams of human anatomy. Beautiful drawings but -- as the pages turn -- terrible in their frankness... (Peter Greenaway)

It is Vesalius' Anatomy of Birth -- a book of drawings and diagrams of human anatomy. Beautiful drawings but -- as the pages turn -- terrible in their frankness...

Peter Greenaway

Related topics

anatomy beautiful birth book frankness human turn

Related quotes

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page. View quote
Sidney Sheldon
Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. View quote
Carson McCullers
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. View quote
James Baldwin
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies. View quote
Jonathan Swift