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Sergei Eisenstein Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“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 Eisenstein, Film Form: Essays in Film Theory
Tagged: Poetry, Waterfalls
“Human expression is a conflict between conditioned and unconditioned reflexes.”
— Sergei Eisenstein
Tagged: Reflexes, expression
“The hieroglyphic language of the cinema is capable of expressing any concept, any idea of class, any political or tactical slogan, without recourse to the help of a rather suspect dramatic or psychological past.”
— Sergei Eisenstein
Tagged: Language, Cinema, Slogans
“American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.”
— Sergei Eisenstein
Tagged: Capitalism, America, Cinema
“In themselves, the pictures, the phases, the elements of the whole are innocent and indecipherable. The blow is struck only when the elements are juxtaposed into a sequential image.”
— Sergei Eisenstein
Tagged: Architecture, Montage, Juxtaposition
“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.”
— Sergei Eisenstein
Tagged: film, Director, human beings, aspirations
“Reality is like the serious white clown. It seems earnest and logical. Circumspect and prudent. But in the final analysis it is reality that looks the fool, the object of derision. Its partner, Chaplin, guileless and childlike, comes out on top. He laughs carelessly without even noticing that his laugh slays reality.”
— Sergei Eisenstein, Who was Sergei Eisenstein? Google honors Soviet film pioneer, ‘father of montage’
Tagged: Reality, Clowns, Charles Chaplin, Guileless, Childlike, Prudent
“Cinema is the heir of all artistic cultures, as is the nation itself that elevated it for the first time in all history – both in estimation and creatively – to the very heights of art, and it is the heir of all cultures of the preceding ages.”
— Sergei Eisenstein
Tagged: Cinema, Art, nation
“It is the task of art to reveal the contradictions of being.”
— Sergei Eisenstein, Film Form: Essays in Film Theory
Tagged: Art, film, Contradictions, Society
“Language is much closer to film than painting is.”
— Sergei Eisenstein
Tagged: Language, Painting, film
“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? Language is much closer to film than painting is.”
— Sergei Eisenstein, Film Form: Essays in Film Theory
Tagged: Cinema, Theater, Language, Painters on Painting
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