Author of quotes: Andrey Arsenievich Tarkovsky. Page 3

In the higher sense of freedom, especially in the artistic sense, in terms of creativity, does not exist. Yes, the idea of freedom exists, it is a reality in social and political life. In different regions, different countries, people live with more or less freedom; but you are aware of evidence that show that in the most appalling conditions was people with unheard inner freedom, inner peace, greatness. It seems to me that freedom does not exist as a choice: freedom is a state of mind. For example, socially, politically to be absolutely "free" and yet to die from a sense of impermanence, feelings of isolation, feelings of lack of future.

I would like to tell them that they could no longer be alone. Liked to be alone more. The problem in today's youth is that they try to unite on the basis some noisy action, sometimes aggressive. This desire to unite in order not to feel lonely is a bad sign. I think every person should learn from childhood to be one. It is not meant to be alone. It means not get bored with yourself. Man, bored from loneliness, is in danger from a moral point of view.

People should be able to live in the void.

Man was not created for happiness. There are things more important than happiness. The search for truth are almost always very painful.

The area is not a territory, this is a test in which a person can either survive or break. Will stand whether people depends on the sense of his moral dignity, his ability to distinguish between important and transient...

Artists exist because the world is imperfect.

Through this role (the wife's Stalker) should be clear that all claims of the heroes to life and are not worth a penny. We want to prove that all of them throwing "in search of truth" is vanity. The wife appears at the end, so by its very existence, to demonstrate that nothing, neither science nor art has no value, apart from simple life itself.