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Men Quotes by Andrei Tarkovsky
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.
- 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…
- ...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…
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