#andrei tarkovsky

Tarkovsky fans

An interesting overview of the many problems associated with the Italian Solaris

http://www.nostalghia.com/TheTopics/Italian_Solaris.html

I’ve watched “Andrei Rublev” by Tarkovsky and this film impressed me much. The great film about the great icon painter. This is not fanart just mostly inspired, I guess.

I’m still not sure, Tarkovsky or Tarkovski…

“Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his [or her] own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be. It is far easier to be eclectic, to follow the routine patterns which abound […]. But there is a danger here of becoming hopelessly entangled. I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.”

― Andrei Tarkovsky, from “Sculpting in Time: The Great Russian Filmmaker Discusses His Art”, tr. Kitty Hunter-Blair.

“In order to be free you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody. You have to have your own hypothesis about what you are called to do, and follow it, not giving in to circumstances or complying with them. But that sort of freedom demands powerful inner resources, a high degree of self-awareness, a consciousness of your responsibility to yourself and therefore to other people.”

― Andrei Tarkovsky, from “Sculpting in Time: The Great Russian Filmmaker Discusses His Art”, tr. Kitty Hunter-Blair.