There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist. 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 you sorry culture knowledge 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 looking understand cinema nature 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 dreams respect never-forget forget 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 intelligence poetry responsibility
