Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image. Peter Greenaway More Quotes by Peter Greenaway More Quotes From Peter Greenaway I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge. Peter Greenaway yousorrycultureknowledge It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It does not exist at all in nature; it is a construct made by us, and I wonder whether we need the narrative anymore. Peter Greenaway lookingunderstandcinemanature I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy. Peter Greenaway dreamsrespectnever-forgetforget For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a medium whose total, sole responsibility is the world as seen as a form of visual intelligence. Surely, surely, surely the cinema should be that phenomenon. Peter Greenaway intelligencepoetryresponsibility
