Author of quotes: Andrey Arsenievich Tarkovsky. Page 2

The West shouts: "That's me! Look at me! Look how I suffer, how I love! As I unhappy, as I am fussy! I! Mine! Me! Me!"
East not a word about himself! Complete dissolution in God, Nature, Time. Find yourself in everything! To hide in all!

"Words, words, words," in real life is most often water, and only occasionally and for a short time, we can observe the full match of word and gesture, word and deed, word and meaning.

It seems to me that the ability to perceive art is given to a person with the birth and depends on his spiritual level.

Where we are talking about a deliberate setup for the spectators, it is about the entertainment industry, about the spectacle and the masses - anything, but not about art.

The man who does not aspire to the greatness of the soul - nothing.

Smooth friendly mood - the mark of an educated man.

... There are artists that give a feel for the true measure of things. They have to live with this burden and we have to be grateful to them!

Save all you can, save himself. In a spiritual sense, of course. Common efforts are fruitless.

Our complicated life, preparing each of us some very definite role, puts us in the conditions in which develop only those features of our souls that help us grow in this role. The rest of the souls die. Hence, the avoidant behavior. Here psychology together with sociology give rise to fear, unbelief, meanness and death of dreams.

I'm afraid the funeral! Even when we buried my grandmother, was creepy. And not because she died but because there were people who expressed their feelings. I can't look at people who Express their feelings.

Movie, perhaps, the most unhappy of the arts. Use it as chewing gum, as cigarettes as things that you purchase.

If you remove from human activities all related to profit, there will be only art.

A sacrifice is something that each generation has to make in relation to their children, to sacrifice himself.

Clearly, I can't be the same not because he changed but because I was told, knowing what I learned, I have to change.