I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen. Andrei Tarkovsky More Quotes by Andrei Tarkovsky More Quotes From Andrei Tarkovsky If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens. Andrei Tarkovsky missinghappenslooks I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger. Andrei Tarkovsky boredmeanthinking Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win. Andrei Tarkovsky expressionwinningmen Unspoken feelings are unforgettable. Andrei Tarkovsky unforgettableunspokenfeelings Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time. Andrei Tarkovsky movieableart Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar. Andrei Tarkovsky writingmotivationalmean Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions. Andrei Tarkovsky silentemotionpersons The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act. Andrei Tarkovsky creativeideasart It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins to demand expression. It is like childbirth. The poet has nothing to be proud of. He is not master of the situation, but a servant. Creative work is his only possible form of existence, and his every work is like a deed he has no power to annul. For him to be aware that the sequence of such deeds is due and ripe, that it lies in the very nature of things, he has to have faith in the idea; for only faith interlocks the system of images for which read system of life. Andrei Tarkovsky artistmistakelying IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST IN AN EMPTY UNIVERSE, BUT THAT THEY ARE CONNECTED BY INNUMERABLE THREADS WITH THEIR PAST AND PRESENT, THAT THROUGH CERTAIN MYSTICAL WAYS, EVERY HUMAN BEING REALIZES THE RAPPORT WITH THE WORLD AND THE LIFE OF HUMANITY. Andrei Tarkovsky being-realpastart Art would be useless if the world were perfect. Andrei Tarkovsky would-beperfectart 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 Andrei Tarkovsky winningpeopleneeds It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience. Andrei Tarkovsky long-agoangelart Art is born out of an ill-designed world. Andrei Tarkovsky bornworldart Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world. Andrei Tarkovsky perfectmenart My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness. Andrei Tarkovsky causespurposepeople The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good. Andrei Tarkovsky soulideasart I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman. Andrei Tarkovsky viewstwopeople Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination? Andrei Tarkovsky my-imaginationimaginationreality Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself Andrei Tarkovsky troublecan-do
