Sunday, June 20, 2010

Optimism

Still from Kárhozat (Damnation) by Béla Tarr


'Artistic creation is by definition a denial of death. Therefore it is optimistic, even if in an ultimate sense the artist is tragic.’

Andrei Tarkovsky, Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970-1986, translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair, London, 1994

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