Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Music is a form of prayer.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

Not to be limited by the greatest and yet to be contained in the tiniest—this is the divine

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

My view on music and the way that it's portrayed is that it's a religion.

I really believe what people have said before, that God is love. For me, it's music. For you, it might be writing, or for somebody else, it might be soccer or whatever.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

All art worthy of the name is religious.

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

This Catholic thing, I think what it does is it makes a place for mystery in a person. And even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.