Peter Greenaway Quotes

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like 'Katamari Damacy' or 'Vib-Ribbon.'

The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and everything related to it has become one of the most trivial activities of our epoch.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

Technology adds nothing to art.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold.

Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

There are so many things from movies that are remembered, that are just looks on people's faces or incredible vistas or beautiful pictures. That is a very important part of cinema.

The most creative director I have worked with is Mani Ratnam.

Kurosawa was truly inventive.

Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.

I'm super into dudes like Megazord, Jon Rafman, Rasmus Emanuel Svensson, Tabor Robak, and Michael Willis to name a few.

I appreciate artistically made movies, but as an audience member, I want to be entertained, too.

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?