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Quote by Georges Danton

“In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.”

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Georges Danton was a French politician and revolutionary, born on October 26, 1759, and died on April 5, 1794. He was a significant figure during the French Revolution, known for his radical revolutionary ideas and political activities. more

“Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.”

May Ideas Artist Principles Genius Letting Go Evidence Sake Hardest Enjoyment Conception Hardest Thing Unafraid Never Let Go

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the vincula that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.”

Ifs Men World Age Law Understanding Numbers Existence Steps Path Subjects Creation Activity Absolutes Infinite Aim Artistic Related Mastery Facets Unending Artistic Creation

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that ideal, I am not for a moment suggesting that art should shun the 'dirt' of the world. On the contrary! 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. Substitution... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.”

“"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".”

Men Should Able Suffering Born Existence Trouble Sparks

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.”

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Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.”

Needs Artist Observation Artificial Abstention Abstaining

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.”

Screens Prose

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.”

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Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

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