Sergei Eisenstein Quotes

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

Sergei Eisenstein

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• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Never
  • Felt
  • Worse

• And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Believe
  • Damnation
  • Mutilates

• No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Difficult
  • Parent
  • No Matter What

• In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Character
  • Long Run
  • Good Action

• The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Hood
  • Notion
  • Territory

• I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe
  • Beatles
  • Elvis

• Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Brooke
  • Diana Ross

• I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Said
  • Involved
  • Painter

• But if you are a conceited brown-nosing shit-bag, you will be allowed to do what ever you want, and you will be handed your higher rank.

  

  Bowe Bergdahl
  • Want
  • Conceited
  • Rank

• Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household and family arrangements. If women with children and family responsibilities are almost always seriously limited by these, then those currently in power will not have the personal experience necessary to represent these overlooked areas.

  

  Eva Cox
  • Children
  • Family
  • Experience

• It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

  

  Sergei Eisenstein
  • Contradiction
  • Manifest