Quote by: Andrei Tarkovsky

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.


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Author Bio


  • NameAndrei Tarkovsky
  • DescriptionSoviet and Russian film-maker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director
  • AliasesAndrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky; Andrej Tarkovskij
  • BornApril 4, 1932
  • DiedDecember 29, 1986
  • CountrySoviet Union
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Actor
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