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They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.
— Andrei Makine
The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.
— Andrei Zhdanov
The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
— Andrei Sakharov
Knowledge is truthful only if it's based in morality.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Substitution ... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty
— Andrei Tarkovsky
An exile's only country is his country's literature.
— Andrei Makine
Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand?
— Andrei Sinyavsky
A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
— Andrei Platonov
Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.
— Andrei Sakharov
In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.
— Andrei Codrescu
You can't sit on two chairs at once.
— Andrei Sakharov
Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible.
— Andrei Cherny
Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.
— Andrei Codrescu
It's not a mystery, it's a secret. Because someone knows. A mystery is something no one knows.
— Andrei Bitov
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
— Andrei Voznesensky
Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
— Andrei Codrescu
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
— Andrei Platonov
It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.
— Andrei Codrescu
We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.
— Andrei Platonov
I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?
— Andrei Platonov
If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.
— Andrei Voznesensky
One book: too much!Many books: never enough. — Andrei Ludu
Marxism will be able to do anything. Or why is Lenin lying whole in Moscow? He's waiting for science - he wants to be revived.
— Andrei Platonov
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.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
— Andrei Codrescu
If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
The meaning of religious truth is hope
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.
— Andrei Voznesensky
IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.
— Torsten Wiesel
ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
— Andrei Codrescu
Volsky once more had the feeling that the bond between them was indifferent to the demise of bodies.
— Andrei Makine
Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
— Andrei A. Gromyko
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
— Andrei Codrescu
Do you know how much thinking and feeling I've done? It's terrible. And nothing's come of it.
— Andrei Platonov
A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours
— Andrei Sakharov
I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
He had already come to see human lives as one single communal life and it was perhaps this perception that gave him hope.
— Andrei Makine
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
— Andrei Platonov
Nosferatu is the daddy of modern American sex.
— Andrei Codrescu
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
— Andrei Platonov
Of babies born alive and in hospitals during that month of July 1945, 92 percent would die within then days.
— Andrei Cherny
Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense appetite for living.
— Andrei Codrescu
I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.
— Graciela Iturbide
The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.
— Andrei Linde
A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.
— Andrei Zhdanov
When I used my knife, it brought psychological relief. I know I have to be destroyed. I was a mistake of nature.
— Andrei Chikatilo
( ... ) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.
— Andrei Makine
Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.
— Andrei Codrescu
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
This is important, Your Honor, because it establishes the fact that language, like blood, is a living thing that proceeds forward in time.
— Andrei Codrescu
Art would be useless if the world were perfect.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
— Andrei Platonov
Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.
— Andrei Codrescu
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
— Andrei Platonov
Every night, whisper 'peace' in your husband's ear.
— Andrei A. Gromyko
Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
— Andrei Platonov
Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.
— Andrei Platonov
Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.
— Andrei Codrescu
This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of a single human being.
— Andrei Makine
Only the poor can create art.
— Andrei Codrescu
For us military men, it is impossible to forget.
— Andrei Grechko
We hate our squalor.
— Andrei Platonov
As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees's dog.
— Steven Weinberg
My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Death is not enough for such men. We must add mechanics
— Andrei Codrescu
Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.
— Andrei Voznesensky
Prince Andrei shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as lovers of music do when they hear a false note. The
— Leo Tolstoy
Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.
— Andrei Sakharov
Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.
— Andrei Cherny
People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
