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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
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Investigation is never complete.
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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.
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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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