"It is a mistake to talk about the……" — Andrei Tarkovsky
"It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins to demand expression. It is like childbirth. The poet has nothing to be proud of. He is not master of the situation, but a servant. Creative work is his only possible form of existence, and his every work is like a deed he has no power to annul. For him to be aware that the sequence of such deeds is due and ripe, that it lies in the very nature of things, he has to have faith in the idea; for only faith interlocks the system of images for which read system of life."
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68 Quotes by Andrei Tarkovsky
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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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