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Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".
Sculpting in Time (1986)
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
What is the essence of the director's work? We could define it as sculpting in time.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
Art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
Never try to convey your idea to the audience — it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote?
Sculpting in Time (1986)
Conscience, both as a sense and as a concept, is a priori immanent in man, and shakes the very foundations of the society that has emerged from our ill-conceived civilisation.
Sculpting in Time (1986)
I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
Sculpting in Time (1989)