Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.

Peter Greenaway's Popular Quotes

Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.

- Peter Greenaway

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

- Peter Greenaway

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

- Peter Greenaway

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's thre…

- Peter Greenaway

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

- Peter Greenaway

Itch to read, scratch to understand.

- Peter Greenaway

We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

- Peter Greenaway

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

- Peter Greenaway

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 w…

- Peter Greenaway