Sergei Eisenstein quotes
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“American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.”
-- Sergei EisensteinSource : Sergei Eisenstein (1964). “Film form: essays in film theory, and The film sense”
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“The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.”
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“Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?”
-- Sergei EisensteinSource : Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Language is much closer to film than painting is.”
-- Sergei EisensteinSource : Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.”
-- Sergei EisensteinSource : Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.”
-- Sergei EisensteinSource : Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being”
-- Sergei EisensteinSource : Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them that at last they have begun to reciprocate. In my hands books burst like ripe fruit. Like magic flowers they unfold their petals to show me the vital thought, the suggestive word, the confirming quotation, the decisive illustration.”
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