Kathleen Lotze’s Reviews > Sculpting in Time > Status Update

“In order to engage in any scientific system a person has […] to achieve an understanding, which requires […] education. Art addresses everybody, in the hope of making an impression, above all of being felt, of being the cause of an emotional trauma and being accepted, of winning people not by incontrovertible argument but through the spiritual energy with which the artist has charged the work.” p. 37-38

p. 26 “Of course, my point of view is subjective. But that is how it has to be in art: in his work the artist breaks down reality in the prism of his perception and uses a foreshadowing technique of his own to show different sides of reality.”

The introduction already sucks you into Tarkovsky’s mind, emotionally and cognitively, as much as his films do.