All Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
- Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality. Based
- An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind. Artist
- No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en… Character
- My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather… Another Culture
- When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented… Alternative
- Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as… Art
- The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to… Action
- I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman. Bergman
- I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin… All
- The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the… Acceptable
- 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… Annul
- Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored. Dealt
- Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of… Aimed
- What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the… Act
- It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have… Accordance
- ...what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not… Any
- ...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope… Art
- Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves… Appreciate