"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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Source : Ingmar Bergman (1956). “The seventh seal: a film”

Ingmar Bergman

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“A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.”
“I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.”
“But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.”

Source : John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.228, Faber & Faber
“I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.”
“In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.”
“We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody”
“The most gratifying thing, with no question, is making records.”
“I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.”

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