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

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Source : Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sergei Eisenstein

#Art Quotes #Tasks Quotes #Contradiction Quotes

“One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.”
“Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains...”
“I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.”
“I love like the 80s look - 80s and early 90s, like the high-waisted jeans and the crop tops, and the floral prints, and flowers and stuff like that. Big baggy jumpers... yeah, stuff like that.”
“Comfort and solace come about differently for different people.”

Source : Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.
“There's no good story without romance.”
“We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology”

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