Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius of Ingmar Bergman
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Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius of Ingmar Bergman
When making art, we create a mirror in which someone may see their own hidden reflection.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:
- Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read th
Substack • Notes | Substack
All creative work is at bottom a means of self-liberation and a coping mechanism — for the loneliness, the despair, the chaos and contradiction within. It is the best means we have of transmuting that which gnaws at us into something that nourishes, and yet how little of that private ferment is visible in the finished work