Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovskywas a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth4 April 1932
CountryRussian Federation
Andrei Tarkovsky quotes about
philosophy reality men
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.
emotional perception cinema
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.
artist blind born
An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
running doe different
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
mean idols people
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
fighting compromise refusal
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
men should-have ignored
Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.
spiritual men mass-culture
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.
mistake struggle reality
The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable. Of course an artist can lose his way, but even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him.
mean writing trying
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.
book people different
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
patterns forgotten observing
We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.
artist pouring way
The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.
religious religious-truth truth-is
The meaning of religious truth is hope