"A man writes because he is tormented, because……" — Andrei Tarkovsky
"A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?"
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68 Quotes by Andrei Tarkovsky
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Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
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Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to…
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When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows…
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Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence;…
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Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could…
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An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining,…
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I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
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For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
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The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which…
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The meaning of religious truth is hope
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