Andrei TarkovskyThinkers

Artistic discovery is always manifest as a new and unique image of the world, a hieroglyphic of absolute truth. that appears as a revelation, as a momentary, passionate wish to grasp intuitively and at a stroke all the laws of this world-its beauty and ugliness, its compassion and cruelty, its infinity and its limitations.

Book is a thousand different books when read by a thousand different people

Cinema is necessarily intellectual, like all art, but it must be above all arts, emotional. It must be able to act upon the heart.

Cinema is an art in which what is necessary is not to explain, but to act upon the viewer's feelings, and the emotion which is awoken in what provokes thought.

Film is a way for us to be remind that we are not alone, lost in an empty universe, but that we are connected by innumerable threads with our past and present, that through certain mystical ways, every human being realizes the rapport with the world and the life of humanity.

Freedom is learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give.

Ingmar Bergman is, far from being symbolic, a filmmaker who is able to, through an almost biological naturalism, arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.

Meaning is best not sought out in art. If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Personal responsibility is the only way to restore harmony in the world,