26 Quotes by Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky was a Russian filmmaker and screenwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and visionary directors in the history of cinema. His films, which include “Solaris”, “Andrei Rublev”, and “Stalker”, are known for their philosophical depth, stunning visuals, and meditative pace. Tarkovsky’s work often explored themes of spirituality, memory, and the human condition, and his innovative use of camera techniques and sound design helped to redefine the art of filmmaking. Tarkovsky died in 1986, but his legacy continues to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles around the world. (Bio)
Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. (Meaning)
If you look for a meaning, you’ll miss everything that happens. (Meaning)
Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.
I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.
Art is born out of an ill-designed world.
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 man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
Being silent for a while is good. Words can’t really express a person’s emotions.
The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by a miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of the self can only be expressed in sacrifice.
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual…
Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.
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 the means to assess and appreciate it.
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
Art would be useless if the world were perfect.
We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.
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 his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.
The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.
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.
Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.
An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself
People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
The meaning of religious truth is hope.
Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.
― Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
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