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....

A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring....

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....

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve,....

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

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