Quotes by Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky

…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 and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist’s version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition – otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.

Art

Expression

Men

“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 we be able to “fly upwards”.

Able

Men

Suffering

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts – for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Cinema

Emotional

Perception

Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.

Beautiful

Needs

Sound

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 THE HEART.

Art

Emotional

Intellectual

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

Mean

Names

Sacrifice

Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm; the distinct time running through the shots makes the rhythm of the picture, and the rhythm is determined not by the length of edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them. The pieces that ‘won’t edit’, that can’t be properly joined, are those which record a radically different kind of time

Different

Doe

Running

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

Art

Artist

Sincere

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

Abstaining

Artist

Needs

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

Artist

Blind

Born

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Currency

Different

Doe

Effort

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Expression

Form

Giving

Harmony

His Love

Humanity

Ideas

Ifs

Imagination

Intellectual

Interesting

Kings

Letting Go

Links

Long Ago

Longing

Love Life

Mean

Men

Mind

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Names

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Quotes by Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky

“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 we be able to “fly upwards”.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts – for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.

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 THE HEART.

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

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