![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the book (but most notably in its “Conclusion”) he speaks in the voice of a trusted elder, as if determined to pass along the wisdom gained from experience and inspiration while time allows. That we understand the gravity of this statement is more than a simple intellectual or rhetorical exercise for Tarkovsky. And again: “The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning it to good” (43). ![]() To explain to people the reason for their appearance on this planet or if not to explain, at least to pose the question” (36). “The goal for all art,” he writes, “unless of course it is aimed at the ‘consumer’, like a saleable commodity, is to explain to the artist himself and to those around him what man lives for, what is the meaning of his existence. To him, his subject -the unique ability of the cinematic image to touch the soul and inspire spiritual improvement - is quite literally a matter of life and death. ![]() In it Tarkovsky speaks as eloquently about art as he does faith and philosophy, and does so in a remarkably kind, concerned voice. I’ve never read another book like Sculpting in Time. My hope is that those readers whom I manage to convince, if not entirely then at least in part, may become my kindred spirits, if only in recognition of the fact that I have no secrets from them. ![]()
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