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Andrei Tarkovsky has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that…
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A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s…
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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 strictures it…
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Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more…
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When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a…
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Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how…
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Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to…
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from…
— Ludwig von Mises
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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
— Vida Dutton Scudder
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An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
— Aleister Crowley
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