Tag: andrei tarkovsky

punksvspreps:

The project of making a chair is a way of saying, I’m not satisfied. Fuck this world, even the chairs aren’t any good. I want to make mine…why does it have to work? The world as it’s been supplied to me is not sufficient, not satisfactory, faulty. So as a person, as an expression of autonomy, it would be necessary to actually recreate all the objects around you. Everything. Fuck this table, it’s not ok. And to me that’s an essentially physical act. I just get pissed at certain objects and need to destroy them.

– Oscar Tuazon

The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it.

– Andrei Tarkovsky

mudwerks:

“This world is not a place where we can be happy. It wasn’t created for man’s happiness, though many believe this is the reason of our existence. I think we are here to fight, so that good and evil can clash within us, and good may prevail, thus enriching us spiritually. It’s difficult to say whether we are happy or not: it doesn’t depend on us… There are times when one regrets being born, but life also gives us surprising things that, alone, are worth living. The issue of happiness doesn’t exist for me: happiness as such doesn’t exist.”

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Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky on Robert Bresson

“Bresson has been able in his work to raise cinematography to the level of comparable older art forms and genre. I feel very close to Bresson. Of all the artists seeking simplicity and depth, he is one of the few to achieve this in his work. That’s essential. We all seek simplicity. All serious artists seek simplicity, but only very few achieve it. Bresson is one of the few who succeeded.”