The first time I was at the Apollo, I threw my tie out to them, and they threw it back to me. I said, ‘James, you have got some work to do.’
“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… Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.”
Ingmar Bergman