"Art lost its basic creative drive the moment……" — Ingmar Bergman
"Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God."
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69 Quotes by Ingmar Bergman
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to…
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the…
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The older I become, the more I think about my mother.
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I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement.…
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No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room…
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Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that…
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Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to…
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