David

“Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

“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

“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews