We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
...what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“I see it as my duty to stimulate reflection on what is essentially human and eternal in each individual soul, and which… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely… — 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
All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Art affirms all that is best in man—hope, faith, love, beauty, prayer…What he dreams of and what he hopes for…What is art?…Like… — 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
