I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings,… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head,… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light.[...] I… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously? — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you something banal.We're emotional illiterates.And not only you and I-practically everybody,that's the depressing thing.We're taught everything about the body and about agriculture… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful.” — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
