Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes

When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alterna...

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to s...

Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to ge...

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unaf...

Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in it...

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the pr...

A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learn...

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i...

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our ...

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pourin...

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recall...

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learn...

...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out toward...

What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience o...

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys aw...