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English culture is highly literary-based.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
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Experimental Artist
Film Director
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Newport
South Wales
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English
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I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.
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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.
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Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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I was continually connected with the whole world and never got any rest. At the moment, I spend only a few hours weekly on the net, that's just better for me.
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I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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