Sergei Eisenstein Quotes on pain

Language is much closer to film than painting is... view

By: Sergei Eisenstein

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For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation... view

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?.. view

By: Sergei Eisenstein

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