"An artist who has no faith is like……" — Andrei Tarkovsky

"An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind."

— 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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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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