"The idea that everyone is responsible for himself to have vanished, to have fallen victim to a misconceived "common good", in the service of which man acquires the right to be treated with a total lack of responsibility." (page 233)
"The connection between man´s behaviour and his destiny has been destroyed; and this tragic breach is the cause of his sense of instability in the modern world."
(page 235)
"By emphasising the social usefulness of someone´s activity to the point where the rights of the personality are ignored, we commit an unforgivable mistake and create all the preconditions for tragedy."
(page 236)
"A sense of "happiness" is far less important than being able to confirm your own soul in the fight for that freedom which is, in the true sense, divine - where good and evil are balanced, and evil is never allowed to prevail."
(page 239)
"What is art?...........Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependance on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life - love and sacrifice."
(page 239)
"The East was closer to the truth than the West; but Western civilisation devoured the East with its materialist demands on life."
(page 240)
"And according to the logic of Eastern thought, conflict of any kind is essentially sinful."
(page 241)
"Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in 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?"
(final phrases of the book, pages 241 - 242)
source: http://fisejs.ibabylon.cz/knihy/Andrey_Tarkovsky_Sculpting_in_Time__2nd_edition_1987.pdf
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