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I've been thinking about these words from filmmaker #IngmarBergman since the news about #NotreDame broke earlier today:
"There is an old story of how the cathedral of Chartres was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Then thousands of people came from all points..."
"There is an old story of how the cathedral of Chartres was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Then thousands of people came from all points..."
"...of the compass, like a giant procession of ants, and together they began to rebuild the cathedral on its old site. They worked until the building was completed — master builders, artists, labourers, clowns, noblemen, priests, burghers. But they all remained anonymous..."
"...and no one knows to this day who built the cathedral of Chartres. Regardless of my own beliefs and my own doubts, which are unimportant in this connection, it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship..."
