"The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light."

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...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.

— Andrei Tarkovsky