"Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and theyâ€™ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it."

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Source : "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 152), 1986.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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“If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- Ive got to have them.”
“Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my loveâ€“because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.”
“It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
“I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.”

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“Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.”
“If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.”
“Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.”
“Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.”

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