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
winning people needs
If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have with something, the more people require that we express it. So it goes without saying, as a result of this we in principle never win out, others win. We always lose
people purpose causes
My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness
feelings unforgettable unspoken
Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.
two views people
I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
spiritual art longing
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.
flames soul evolution
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
giving moments form
...what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.
missing looks ifs
If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.
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.
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.
patterns forgotten observing
We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.
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.
reality imagination my-imagination
Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?
spiritual art said
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.