"A book read by a thousand different people……" — Andrei Tarkovsky

"A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books."

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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68 Quotes by Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for…
A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others…
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the…
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to…
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows…
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence;…
Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could…
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining,…
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which…

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