May 14, 2012
"Even in Goethe we come across heavy lines, even in him we can be confronted by lack of clarity or banality of thought. It is not a question of thought, or of colour, or of faithfulness to literary rules; it is something else, living but incomprehensible, something that will always elude any definition of artistic genius…the clearest of images of the great artists and their words are never clear to the end, rather as the limpid sky over our heads, when we gaze into it, turns out to be not pale blue at all, but a darker shade, deeper, fathomless. And so the works of great genius, for all their crystalline clarity, will sometimes make us gaze apprehensively into their depths, and define the clarity as the clarity of the deep…and that is all; what lies at the bottom of those depths eludes us."

Andrey Bely, The Tragedy of Art, ‘Dostoievsky and Tolstoy’.

A quote featured in Andrey Tarkovsky’s diary entry, November 10, 1980.

from Time Within Time: The Diaries, Andrey Tarkovsky.

The passages highlighted by my father (years ago) in particular are intriguing to me.

(via harpy)

(via libraryland)

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