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
missing looks ifs
If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.
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.
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.
passing-by numbers people
Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.
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.