Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act?

Andrei Tarkovsky

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