Art would be useless if the world were perfect.
Interpretation
Art thrives on the imperfections of the world, as it reflects and responds to the human experience.
This quote by Andrei Tarkovsky suggests that art derives its significance from the challenges and imperfections inherent in life. If the world were perfect, there would be little for art to express or critique; therefore, it is the flaws and struggles of existence that give rise to creative expression and deeper understanding of the human condition.
In practice
During a lecture on the importance of art, you could quote Tarkovsky to emphasize how creativity stems from life's challenges.
AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION, AS A MOMENTARY, PASSIONATE WISH TO GRASP INTUITIVELY AND AT A STROKE ALL THE LAWS OF THIS WORLD-ITS BEAUTY AND UGLINESS, ITS COMPASSION AND CRUELTY, ITS INFINITY AND ITS LIMITATIONS.
When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life.
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.
THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF WHAT IS LIVING, THE ARTIST USES SOMETHING DEAD; TO SPEAK OF THE INFINITE, HE SHOWS THE FINITE.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.
I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.
I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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