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Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.
The meaning of religious truth is hope.
Art is born out of an ill-designed world.
Art would be useless if the world were perfect.
The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.
Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.
Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself
Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?
Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.
If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.
People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.
We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.
I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...
My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.
The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.
My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.
ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.
It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.
Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.
If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.
The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.
Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".
Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.
Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.
A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.
When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life.
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.
I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger.
The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.