Quotes by : Andrei Tarkovsky

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images....

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness....

What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience of....

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence;....

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present.....

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt....

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid....

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling....

...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards....

Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its....