Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.
Andrei TarkovskyBecoming 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.
Andrei TarkovskyI think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.
Andrei TarkovskyThe only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
Andrei TarkovskyA man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that heโs worth something. And if I know for sure that Iโm a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?
Andrei Tarkovsky