"The artist is always a servant, and is……" — Andrei Tarkovsky
"The artist is always a servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of self can only be expressed in sacrifice."
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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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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
— Niels Bohr
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to…
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
— Leonard Cohen
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Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the…
— Emma Goldman
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Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want…
— Louise Hay
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
— Gregory Bateson
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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey…
— Stephen Leacock
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Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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This or something better now manifests for me in totally satisfying and harmonious ways, for the highest good of all…
— Shakti Gawain
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As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!
— Louise Hay
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