Ingmar Bergman Quotes

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It's lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain is that much removed from reality. They are looking for answers wherever they can find them.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

If someone criticizes my acting, they may be right.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

You get negative comments even if you are not talking. So you can't be scared of negative comments from people.

Painting is a lonely, mostly solitary act.

Dead silence is so much more foreign to me than people screaming at me, good or bad.

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.

I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with creation. And it is so satisfying that sometimes, I have noticed, I completely neglect my friends and my family, and they fall away.

Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.