“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, books.google.comTagged: Poetry, Waterfalls
“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, books.google.comTagged: Cinema, Theater, Language, Painters on Painting
“It is the task of art to reveal the contradictions of being.”— Sergei Eisenstein, amazon.comTagged: Art, film, Contradictions, Society