All Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
- If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want… Accepting
- 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… Constantly
- Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. Awareness
- Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid… Artist
- Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of… Absolute
- When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that… Aim
- Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should… Able
- Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema… All
- 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… Abstaining
- I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen. All
- For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion. Character
- The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute… Absolute
- The meaning of religious truth is hope Hope
- An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty Any
- The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim… Across
- It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. All
- History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the… Both
- Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema. Cinema
- A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. Book
- Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free. Course
- I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility. Any
- Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual. Art
- 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.… Affirmation
- The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise. Compromise
- Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our… Absolute