Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius of Ingmar Bergman
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Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius of Ingmar Bergman
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Even if you know what it feels like to be completely open to where your curiosity wants you to go, like Grothendieck, it is a fragile state. It often takes considerable work to keep the creative state from collapsing, especially as your work becomes successful and the social expectations mount. When I listen to interviews with creative people or re
... See moreThe true value of unbaked scrawls and sketches and whatnot is as a window to an artist’s process. Process is an ugly-sounding word—pedestrian jargon for the inherently wondrous act of creation—but it describes a method by which a thing evolves, which has always had a hold on me.
As the French film director Robert Bresson once said, “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”