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A hand cannot write on itself.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
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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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A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
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We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.
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We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.
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I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.
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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
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