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Peter Greenaway: Citations en anglais

“My brother works for a forestry commission. He writes only in green ink to persuade his bosses to make it a standard ecological colour for all forestry business. I asked him what colour ink he would use if he gave up eating whale meat and worked for a whaling company. He said whales were colour blind.”

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One of the calligraphers
The Pillow Book

“The cinema is about other things than storytelling. What you remember from a good film -- and let's only talk about good films -- is not the story, but a particular and hopefully unique experience that is about atmosphere, ambience, performance, style, an emotional attitude, gestures, singular events, a particular audio-visual experience that does not rely on the story.”

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"105 Years of Illustrated Text" in the Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 5 No. 1.
105 Years of Illustrated Text

“Nun 2: (Very quietly) Sir, be grateful for the music. Most of us die in silence.”

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The Baby of Mâcon

“A is for Adam and E is for Eve. B is for bile, blood and bones.”

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Louis Andriessen & Jeroen van der Linden, "The Alphabet Song"
M is for Man, Music, and Mozart

“Perhaps, sadly, in the end, cinema is only a translator's art, and you know what they say about translators: traitors all.”

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"105 Years of Illustrated Text" in the Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 5 No. 1.
105 Years of Illustrated Text

“At once, far off… begins a rumbling, droning noise -- like a thousand distant flying machines -- like the sound of an armada of mechanical birds -- a noise reminiscent of implacable, massive stage machinery in a masque or pageant that is several streets away. It is not one sound but many sounds combined. This is the sound of Prospero's magic.”

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Prospero's Books

“I was completely absorbed as to what would happen because anything was possible.”

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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

“I have always found them very reasonable --they don't change their minds when you aren't looking at them. Each one can always be relied upon to say the same thing.”

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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

“This drawing is three quarters ball, one quarter philosopher, which might be about the right space to keep a philosopher in his place.”

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Flying Out of This World

“On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more positions to take, no certainties, no facts. Many people find this confusing about my films; they say I am hiding out behind irony. But from a cosmic viewpoint, it is eternally unimportant whether one lives or not.”

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In an interview in Die Zeit, 24 Nov 1989
Interviews

“We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.”

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Dear Boullée

“I'm an excuse for medical experiments and art theory. You must get me out of here and out of the hospital.”

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A Zed and Two Noughts

“I cannot keep a clock or a watch. They stop on me. Why won't time stay peacefully on my wrist? Is time not interested in me any more because I am dying?”

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Dear Boullée

“If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.”

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From the seventh book, "The Book of Youth"
The Pillow Book

“This book is past the first flush of youth. It is a book that is in puberty. It is hesitating, and from the vantage point of the mature reader, it is both a sad and amusing reminder of the part which is not always attractive enough to be revisited.”

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From the seventh book, "The Book of Youth"
The Pillow Book

“Dawns and sunsets. The Magic Hour -- when the sun and the moon can be in the sky at the same time -- a magic and disturbing occurrence for a child. And for an adult.”

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Fear of Drowning By Numbers

“And you would never know if she had feet.”

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Philip and Storey
8 1/2 Women

“In one of the rooms of the Fortuny Palace there are eight books from Prospero's Library. They are magical books. In many senses all books are magical.”

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Watching Water

“May I keep this book forever. May this book and this body outlast my love. May this book and this body love me as I love its length, its breadth, its thickness, its text, its skin, its letters, its punctuation, its quiet and its noisy pages.”

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From the sixth book, "The Book of the Lover"
The Pillow Book

“I like sleeping. (after a pause) You were conceived in this bed.”

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8 1/2 Women

“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.”

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From an interview in Art and Design, no. 49
Interviews

“This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.”

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Nagiko
The Pillow Book

“No more. A puff of writing long gone. Is this the child pulling on the flying cloth of its mother's last worn dress?”

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Flying Out of This World

“What are you -- some kind of addict? Is this where you come to…”

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The Pillow Book

“I invariably, after great familiarity with a film, concoct a personal way of reading it that relies entirely on information which a public audience would, I feel, have scant interest. I might travel from a casual unrehearsed glance of a minor character to a detail of folded cloth, from a rhyme in the dialogue to an over-excited high note in the music, from a misplaced shadow to a patch of rogue colour, from a shine on a furniture leg to a curious accidental photographic haze around a street lamp, from the examination of a cloud that looks like a snail to the discomfort of an actress who I know is stifling a sneeze.”

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Watching Water

“That's just the sort of remark you would make -- you'd just be intent on whipping it in, whipping it out, and wiping it on your jacket! Look at your jacket! Looks like a pig field! Your nails could do with a clean. Show me your nails! God! Why can't I have some bloody quality in my associates?”

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Albert and Mews
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

“I sit here for hours. It's like sitting amongst lighthouses, each lighthouse giving you a bearing on lost spaces of time…”

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A Zed and Two Noughts

“I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.”

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In an interview in Positif, Apr. 86
Interviews

“The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.”

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Fear of Drowning By Numbers

“Alas, despite wing implants, feathers and wax, and carnal associations with swans, we will never grow wings. Alas, any true flight we make will always be externally assisted. Alas, the best we can do is fall and believe ourselves flying.”

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Flying Out of This World

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