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
Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll… — 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
No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as… — 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
IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST… — 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
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
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
AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF… — 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
