These quotes by the Russian-Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky will open a new World to you.

Andrei Tarkovsky is considered as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of World Cinema. He made only seven films ('Ivan's Childhood', 'Nostalgia', 'Mirror', 'Solaris', 'Stalker', 'Andrei Rublev' and 'The Sacrifice') and all of them are considered as masterpieces. Each of his films explores human emotions in a very poetic way and every time you watch his films, you will find new meanings and feelings.

Here are some quotes by him:

1. "How do you expect Art to make sense when life doesn't make any sense at all."
2. "If you look for a meaning, you will miss everything that happens."
3. "Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions."
4. "If you try to please audience, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money; and instead of training the audience by giving them inspiring works of art, you are merely training the artist to ensure his own income."
5. "Cinema is a mosaic made of time."
6. "The advice I can give to beginners, not to make a difference between the movie and their own life."
7. "The purpose of art is to help man improve himself spiritually."
8. "Becoming 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."
9. "It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years, humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good."
10. The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamics and conflicts.
11. "For me, the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion."
12. "Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I would say that film is the sculpting of time."
13. "Relating a person to the whole World, that is the meaning of Cinema."

As Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman said, "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest director, the one who invented new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream."