Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

The good is the beautiful.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

Art is truth.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

You always feel quite vulnerable when you're naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around you, it's not that sexy. But, it looks stunning. It's art. It's not vulgar. It's not indecent. It's not realistic. It's beautiful, I think.

My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.