Peter Greenaway Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.

  Peter Greenaway

  Gay, Pessimist, Used

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A Zed and Two Noughts, a third of which was a homage to Vermeer. Conceivably, if you are a list-enthusiast like me, the New York telephone directory might be fascinating, demographically, geographically, historically, typographically, cartographically; but I am sure no compliment was intended.

  Peter Greenaway

  New York, Two, Vermeer

• As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

  Peter Greenaway

  Maternity, Barren, Spinsters

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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