All Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
- If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and… Attention
- Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in… Able
- Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself Anyone
- Art is born out of an ill-designed world Art
- ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON… Act
- IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT. Act
- MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE EQUAL… Able
- IN THE CINEMA A DIRECTOR EXPRESSES HIS INDIVIDUALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THROUGH HIS SENSE OF TIME, THROUGH RHYTHM. RHYTHM GIVES COLOUR TO A WORK BY… Arise
- MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT… Able
- AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION,… Absolute
- THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF WHAT IS LIVING,… Art
- I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY, ON THE KINSHIP… Affect
- IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST IN AN EMPTY… All
- Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence… Act
- When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of… Awareness
- My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness Cause
- A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly… Allows
- If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have with… Always Lose
- Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away,… Boundless
- Art would be useless if the world were perfect. Art
- Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions. Emotion
- Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination? Imagination
- Unspoken feelings are unforgettable. Feelings
- I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a… Alone
- People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger. Bored