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
“I felt all the time that for the film to be a success the texture of the scenery and the landscapes must… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“For many years I have been tormented by the certainty that the most extraordinary discoveries await us in the sphere of time… — 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
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
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
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create… — 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
“In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Late this evening I looked at the sky and saw the stars. I felt as if it was the first time I… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“The rhythm of editing, the length of a frame- these are not merely dictated by the professional need to establish a link… — 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
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
“Why do I feel this alone? Basically, because I’ve always been alone. I’ve always been alone. And alone I’ll be. It’s about… — 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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