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Peter Greenaway on Books

born 1942 Wales

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This book has neither the virtue of irony nor deserves the sympathy reserved for the truly mad.

Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?

This is a book and a body that is so warm to the touch. My touch.

The book to end all books. The final book. After this, there is no more writing, no more publishing.

Prospero has always felt most at ease in a study, surrounded by books.

Go on. Treat me like the page of a book. Your book.

"You could spend a lifetime reading in here."

I want to describe the Body as a Book, a Book as a Body, and this Body and this Book will be the first Volume of Thirteen Volumes.

Atlas, the man who carries the world, becomes the book of the maps of the world. An example of man, or God, into book. Few have that honour.

"What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?"

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.

From the ninth book, "The Book of Secrets"

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Greenaway (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.