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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
Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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
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
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
Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?
— Andrei Tarkovsky
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. The only thing that matters is that he should't become 'stuck' in childishness
— Andrei Tarkovsky
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. He has to be a child. The only thing that matters is that he shouldn't become 'stuck' in childishness.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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
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
— 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
Art would be useless if the world were perfect.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.
— Ingmar Bergman
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
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 meaning of religious truth is hope
— Andrei Tarkovsky
An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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
I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.
— Graciela Iturbide
A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.
— Richard Stanley
