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
beautiful art truth-is
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.
beautiful art use
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.
beautiful needs cinema
Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.
artist ideas people
It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.
giving his-love needs
My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.
letting-go artist ideas
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.
trouble can-do
Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself
responsibility world harmony
I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.
spiritual symbolism people
I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.
morality truthful ifs
Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.
weak invincible seems
The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.
editing objectivity subjective
Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.
reality thinking links
I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.
character two personality
No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en scène' turns into a sign, a cliché, a concept however original it may be, then the whole thing - characters, situation, psychology - become schematic and false.