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Andrei Tarkovsky Inspirational Quotes (74)

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Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.
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My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.
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The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.
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Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.
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An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
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People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
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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.
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Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?
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I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death.
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What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent for the moment it is nothing.
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If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.
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Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.
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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.
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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.
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Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself
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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.
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For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
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When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?
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Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.
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We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.
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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.
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Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards. In other words suffering is germane to our existence indeed, how without it, should we be able to fly upwards.
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
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Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
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