I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
Ingmar BergmanRead
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the complexity of self-representation and the struggle to express one's true self without deceit.
Ingmar Bergman's quote suggests that the act of creating a self-portrait can be problematic because it implies a level of self-deception. Even if the intention is to unveil the truth of oneself, the inherent nature of self-portraiture might lead to a distortion of reality, as individuals often grapple with the aspects of themselves they choose to portray and those they choose to conceal.
In practice
In an art class discussing the complexities of self-identity.
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.
I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.
I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.
To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated.
Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.
Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art.
How do you project a character if you don't have a sense of where she is from? I've always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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