I am becoming more and more convinced that there is somethi… - Andrei Tarkovsky

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I am becoming more and more convinced that there is something wrong with the way I live. Something false about everything I do. Even when I want to do something good; I feel that it's only in order to seem a better person.

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Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский) (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director.

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Birth Name: Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky

Native Name: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский

Alternative Names: Andrej Tarkovskij • Andrei Tarkovski • Andrej Tarkovszkij • And. Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ • Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky • Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskĭi • Andrei Tarkovskij • Andreĭ Arsenévich Tarkovskiĭ • Andrey Tarkovsky • Andreĭ Arsen'evich Tarkovskiĭ • Andrej Tarkowskij • Andreiĭ Arsen'evich Tarkovskiĭ • Andrei Arsen'evich Tarkovskii

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But how can I put a name to what it is that I want? How am I to know that I really don't want what I want, or that I really don't want what I don't want? These are intangibles that the moment you name them their meaning evaporates like jellyfish in the sun.

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life — love and sacrifice.

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden. It is actually much simpler than that, otherwise art would have no meaning. You have to be a child — incidentally children understand my pictures very well, and I haven’t met a serious critic who could stand knee-high to those children. We think that art demands special knowledge; we demand some higher meaning from an author, but the work must act directly on our hearts or it has no meaning at all.

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