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

• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• 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
  • Diana Ross
  • Brooke

• What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Energy
  • Control
  • Mistake

• I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Kind
  • Theater
  • Contradiction

• The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Reflection
  • Solutions
  • Contradiction

• It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

  

  Mike Schmidt
  • Home
  • Running
  • Hitting

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

  

  Sergei Eisenstein
  • Contradiction
  • Manifest