“I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.” ThinkingFactsRealityAchieveImpressionObjectivesAuthenticityLinksRepresentationSuperficialSubjectiveCredibilitySuperficiality Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.” PeopleHumansImportantSeemsSpiritualHorrorInstanceLabelsHuman LifeSymbolicSymbolismTagNaturalismSpiritual TruthBergman Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.” WritingWellsMeanDoeSaidMotivationalArtistOrderForgetBecomingMethodTechniqueGrammar Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.” ArtBeautifulTruth IsArt IsIdealsStriveEthicalRealisticAestheticRealismStrife Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.” IfsEditingSubjectiveObjectivity Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.” PeopleIfsWantShouldTryingMeanLanguageInterestCommonAcceptingAudienceGroupsPleaseTasteSakeAliensNeglectIdolsShould INo Respect Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.” SeemsWeakInvincible Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.” PeopleIdeasArtistDirectorsExecutors Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“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.” NeedsGivingFilmFunctionHis LoveSummoning Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.” KnowsMindWellsPeace Of MindCurrency Author:Andrei Tarkovsky