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• Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.

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  Spiritual, Art, Said

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• The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

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  Theatre, Needs, Action

  "Sculpting in Time: Tarkovsky The Great Russian Filmaker Discusses His Art". Book by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1989.

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

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  Reality, World, Way

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• I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death.

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  Wise, Kings, Sleep

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• Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.

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  Letting Go, Artist, Ideas

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• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

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  Art, Years, Humanity

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 50), 1986.

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• If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... 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.

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  Mean, Idols, People

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

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• Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

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  Beautiful, Art, Truth Is

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 113), 1986.

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• The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

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  Fighting, Compromise, Refusal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• "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".

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  Men, Suffering, Able

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 239), 1986.

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• 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.

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  Art, Emotional, Intellectual

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• Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.

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  Editing, Objectivity, Subjective

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 150), 1986.

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• Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

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  Men, Should Have, Ignored

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• IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.

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  Art, Feelings, Cinema

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• A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?

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  Writing, Men, Doubt

  "Fictional character: Pisatel". "Stalker", www.imdb.com. May 1979.

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• 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

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  Running, Doe, Different

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• When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that ideal, I am not for a moment suggesting that art should shun the 'dirt' of the world. On the contrary! the artistic image is always a metonym, where one thing is substituted for another, the smaller for the greater. To tell of what is living, the artist uses something dead; to speak of the infinite, he shows the finite. Substitution... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.

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  Beautiful, Art, Use

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• 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.

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  Artist, Needs, Abstaining

  "Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970-1986". Book by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1989.

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

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  Art, Artist, Sincere

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 47), 1986.

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• The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.

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  Weak, Invincible, Seems

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 181), 1986.

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• ...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.

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  Art, Men, Expression

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 192), 1986.

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• THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF WHAT IS LIVING, THE ARTIST USES SOMETHING DEAD; TO SPEAK OF THE INFINITE, HE SHOWS THE FINITE.

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  Art, Use, Speak

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• AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION, AS A MOMENTARY, PASSIONATE WISH TO GRASP INTUITIVELY AND AT A STROKE ALL THE LAWS OF THIS WORLD-ITS BEAUTY AND UGLINESS, ITS COMPASSION AND CRUELTY, ITS INFINITY AND ITS LIMITATIONS.

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  Art, Unique, Compassion

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• IN THE CINEMA A DIRECTOR EXPRESSES HIS INDIVIDUALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THROUGH HIS SENSE OF TIME, THROUGH RHYTHM. RHYTHM GIVES COLOUR TO A WORK BY DISTINGUISHABLE STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS. RHYTHM MUST ARISE NATURALLY IN A FILM, A FUNCTION OF THE DIRECTOR'S INNATE SENSE OF LIFE AND COMMENSURATE WITH HIS QUEST FOR TIME.

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  Art, Giving, Individuality

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• MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.

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  Art, Jobs, Ideas

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