Famous quote by Sergei Eisenstein

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"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?"

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This quote is written / told by Sergei Eisenstein between January 23, 1898 and February 11, 1948. He/she was a famous Director from Latvia. The author also have 4 other quotes.

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"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary"

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture"

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality"

"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame"

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course"

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum"

"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail"