“The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object” — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Perhaps cinema is the most personal art, the most intimate. In cinema only the author's intimate truth will be convincing enough for… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Little plots and stories, acted out and screened, can't possibly be called cinema. They have nothing whatever to do with cinema. A… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“I somehow think that it's better to screen inferior literature, which nonetheless contains the seed of something real- which can be developed… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“There was a time when I thought that film, unlike other art forms (being the most democratic of them all) had a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.” — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
IN THE CINEMA A DIRECTOR EXPRESSES HIS INDIVIDUALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THROUGH HIS SENSE OF TIME, THROUGH RHYTHM. RHYTHM GIVES COLOUR TO… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“A film in cinema is what in theatre would be realism—and vice versa. In cinema—as in life—the text, the words, are refracted… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“I believe in one thing: the human spirit is immortal and indestructible. In the beyond there could be anything, it is of no importance… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object” — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
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