Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

I want to bring art into everything.

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Art is science made flesh.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.