Dziga Vertov Quotes

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• I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can…
• It is far from simple to show the truth, yet the truth is simple.
• Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope...now…
• The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!
• Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws…
• I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever…
• I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it...I approach and pull away from…
• Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way…
• Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.
• My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.

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