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 think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.

  

  Eric Shanteau
  • I Think
  • Credit
  • Prepares

• Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Knowledge
  • Simple
  • Focus

• I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Poem
  • Contradiction
  • Terms

• I would like to say that, as the protester finished his shower, I was disturbed by the contradiction between my avowed political materialism and my inexperience with this brand of making, of poeisis, but I could dodge or dampen that contradiction via my hatred of Brooklyn's boutique biopolitics, in which spending obscene sums and endless hours on stylized food preparation somehow enabled the conflation of self-care and political radicalism.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Contradiction
  • Materialism
  • Radicalism

• 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

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

  

  Sergei Eisenstein
  • Contradiction
  • Manifest