Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Gertrud Fridh: Corinne von Merkens

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Quotes 

• Baron von Merkens : Does our artist not agree?

  Johan Borg : Forgive me. I call myself an artist for lack of a better name. In my creative work there is nothing implicit except compulsion. Through no fault of mine, I've been pointed out as something quite extraordinary, a calf with five legs, a monster. I have never fought to attain that position and I shall not fight to keep it. Megalomania? Yes I've felt it waft about my brow at times, but I think I'm immune . I have only to think of the utter unimportance of art in the world we live in to bring it down to earth , although the compulsion is there all the same.

  Corinne von Merkens : There speaks an artist!

• Corinne von Merkens : My husband is rather jealous. He is a splendid lover.

  [lifts her dress to show her upper, inner thigh] 

  Corinne von Merkens : Look at this mark, by the way. It's a scar from another man's, shall we say, "advances." A perpetual source of renewed excitement. It's all very trivial, of course, but to me it's stimulating. Soon I'll have to think up something new. This mark can't keep its fascination forever. Can you help me?