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What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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Andrei Tarkovsky
Age: 54 †
Born: 1932
Born: April 4
Died: 1986
Died: December 28
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Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
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Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.
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Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.
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I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.
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The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by a miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of the self can only be expressed in sacrifice.
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Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.
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THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF WHAT IS LIVING, THE ARTIST USES SOMETHING DEAD TO SPEAK OF THE INFINITE, HE SHOWS THE FINITE.
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
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The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
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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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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.
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An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.
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Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?
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An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
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