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“Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.”

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Johannes Tauler (1300-1361) was a prominent German theologian and preacher. He is known for his profound spiritual teachings and contributions to mysticism, which have had a lasting impact on posterity. more

“Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist”

Way Writing Mean Reality Today Lasts Film Higher Directors Equal Degrees Painter Novelists Makers Plastic Realism Composition Competitors Playwright Modifying

Author:Andre Bazin

“How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.”

Want Years Enough Film Greater Illusion Innovation Impact Details Passages Minors Modernity Stature Audacity Passage Of Time

Author:Andre Bazin

“The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none.”

Mind Stories Three Subconscious Subconscious Mind Three Words

Book:Psychotherapy

Source: Psychotherapy

“Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only that which can create a sensation, and accordingly their report becomes not only a careless one, but hopelessly distorted.”

School Gone High School Instinct Reports Sensations Careless

Author:Hugo Munsterberg

“It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.”

Has Beens Said Whole Meaningful Meaningless Procedures Summing Up

Book:Principles of Gestalt Psychology

Source: Principles of Gestalt Psychology

“Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.”

Persons Bird Accounts Bounds Landscape Etc Description Lightning Exaggerated Waterfalls Employing

Book:Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

Source: Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

“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.”

Form Lines Example Color Painting Materials Elements Difficulty Arise Cinema Abstract Manipulation

Book:Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

Source: Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

“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?”

Should Two Ideas Form Language Objects Painting Concepts Theater Arise Combination Cinema Concrete Methodology

Book:Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

Source: Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

“The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.”

Men Should Humans Film Human Beings Directors Profession Disregard Film Directors

Author:Sergei Eisenstein

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