"An artist needs knowledge and the power of……" — Andrei Tarkovsky
"An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false."
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68 Quotes by Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky has 68 quotes on this site.
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If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for…
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A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others…
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Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
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Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the…
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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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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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Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace.…
— Julien Benda
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Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a…
— C.S. Lewis
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Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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Jesus isn't coming for a church that's gritting her teeth, struggling to stay free from sin, secretly wishing she could…
— Mike Bickle
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As for drugs, it annoys me that people think it`s the worst thing in the world compared with, say, not…
— Lily Allen
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Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion…
— Joseph Butler
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
— W.C. Fields
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace.…
— Herman Wouk
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The Supreme Lord said: Fearlessness, purity of heart, perseverance in the yoga of knowledge, charity, sense restraint, sacrifice, study of…
— Bhagavad Gita
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Every human being will have to go before Jesus and give an account of the life they lived. What will…
— Creflo Dollar
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And they were commanded not, but that they should worship Allah, and worship none but Him Alone (abstaining from ascribing…
— Unknown Author
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