Philosophy quotes Andrei Tarkovsky

April 4, 1932 was born the brilliant Soviet director and screenwriter Andrei Tarkovsky. His contribution to world cinema is impossible to describe in words. Members are older will remember the time in which if you have not looked and could not keep up the conversation about "Solaris", "Stalker" or "Andrei Rublev", then you looked to put it mildly, as defective. In this collection you will find a few quotes of this legendary man with his Polaroid photographs.




Artists exist only because the world is imperfect.
Save all you can, save himself. In a spiritual sense, of course. Common efforts are fruitless.
Each artist is guided by its own laws, it is not necessary for the other.
Man is not made for happiness. There are things more important than happiness. The search for truth are almost always very painful.
The artist has to be calm.
This respect for the other person rests on the certainty that he was not dumber than you.
As someone said - in order to write well, you need to forget the grammar.



Conventional truths are truths only if they are supported by their own experiences.
Any creative work tends to be simple, to the most simple way of expression.
The artist is not free at all times. No more unfree people than artists. They cuffed his gift, his purpose - serving the gift and thus people.
This artist always serves immortality - trying to immortalize the world and man in the world.
The thing is that we live in an imaginary world, we create it. And because they themselves depend on its drawbacks, but would depend on its merits.
In general, the art - is an attempt to equate between the infinite and the way.



Terrible always lies in the beautiful, as well as in a terrible and beautiful.
Expression without understanding is meaningless.
What moments of insight, if not immediately perceived the truth?
The black earth of diamonds will not find - they are looking for near volcanoes.
An artist can not be partially sincere as art can not be only an approximation to perfect.
It is obvious that art can not teach anything if four thousand years humanity has learned nothing ?!
Masterpieces are not always identifiable and distinguishable among the works that claim to genius, are scattered in the world as warning labels in a minefield.



I do not know of a single masterpiece, deprivation of certain weaknesses, completely free from imperfections.
Time - a condition for the existence of our "I».
The art - not a science, to allow ourselves to put an experiment.
Learning can be anything - it is impossible to just learn to think independently and with dignity, you can not learn to be a person.
To be free, you just need them to be, not asking anybody permission to do so.



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Quotes from the books of Andrei Tarkovsky "Telling Time", "martyrdom", as well as lectures director.
Pictures of Andrei Tarkovsky

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