Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Angel, Long Ago

• 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.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Ideas, Soul

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 42), 1986.

• History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Flames, Soul, Evolution

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 57), 1986.

• 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.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Spiritual, Men, Mass Culture

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 42), 1986.

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