Pieter Lemmens

“Some sort of pressure must exist; 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. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“Whoever thinks from a distance about his situation lives it with suffering; whoever is close to it lives it with consolation, the fruit of a true wisdom.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“On the flight, before touching ground, we became aware of what we truly were: pilgrims reaching toward Heaven.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky