Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes

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• Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Movie, Art, Able

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• Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Winning, Men, Expression

  "Fictional character: Stalker". "Stalker", May 1979.

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• If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Missing, Looks, Happens

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• Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Feelings, Unforgettable, Unspoken

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• Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Perfect, Would Be

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Patterns, Forgotten, Observing

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• Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Reality, Imagination, My Imagination

  "Fictional character: Domenico". "Nostalgia", www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger.

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  Mean, Thinking, Bored

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• Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Emotion, Silent, Persons

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• 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.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Mean, Ideas

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 152), 1986.

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• Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Men, Courses, No Point

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• Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? ..I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person’s experience-and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer. That is the power of cinema: ‘stars’, story-lines and entertainment have nothing to do with it.

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  Art, Stars, Thinking

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• Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, World, Born

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Book, People, Different

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 177), 1986.

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• 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.

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• 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 relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life.

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  Philosophy, Reality, Men

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• Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Cinema, World, Persons

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 66), 1986.

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• If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.

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  Bored, Special, Quality

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• If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Writing, Mean, Trying

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 174), 1986.

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• The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Childhood

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• IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST IN AN EMPTY UNIVERSE, BUT THAT THEY ARE CONNECTED BY INNUMERABLE THREADS WITH THEIR PAST AND PRESENT, THAT THROUGH CERTAIN MYSTICAL WAYS, EVERY HUMAN BEING REALIZES THE RAPPORT WITH THE WORLD AND THE LIFE OF HUMANITY.

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  Art, Past, Being Real

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• 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.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mean, Sacrifice, Names

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 180), 1986.

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• 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.

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  Art, Angel, Long Ago

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• My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  People, Purpose, Causes

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Love Life, Sacrifice

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