Andreï Tarkovsky : The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn`t exist, for the artist doesn`t live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn`t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world. This is the issue in Andrey Rublyov (1969). Andrei Tarkovsky