Andrei Tarkovsky
Russian · 1932–1986
Visionary director whose poetic explorations of memory, spirituality, and time in films like Stalker and Mirror redefined the language of cinema.
Wikipedia ↗“The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as 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.”
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“The image is not a certain meaning, expressed by the director, but an entire world reflected as in a drop of water.”
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“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself metaphorically.”
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“The artist exists because the world is not perfect.”
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“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
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“I think that what people need is not a new world, but to be renewed themselves.”
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“No one has ever filmed what happens to a man when he stands face to face with that which cannot be expressed in words.”
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“Time is a condition for the existence of our ego.”
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“Life is nothing but a brief interval of time in which we are given to study the spirit through matter.”
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