“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. The artist expresses these things by creating the image, sui generis detecter of the absolute. Through the image is sustained an awareness of the infinite: the eternal within the finite, the spiritual within the matter, the limitless given form.”

- Andrey Tarkovsky