Peter Greenaway Quotes

People don't like to see instability.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

I just have tried to adapt to the constant changes that happen all the time in my schedule and try and find any sort of mini-predictability and balance within my very unpredictable life.

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

Stability is not the way of the world.

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.