Eisenstein explained to an audience of psychologists his new thoughts on the ability of film to represent abstract ideas. During his staying in Boston, the great Russian director receives at Hotel Vendome the intellectuals of the city. At the meeting is brought, for advertising, the famous celebrity film-star dog Rin-Tin-Tin, the first "star" Eisenstein met, as he ironically remarked.
The filmmaker is asked to pose for a photo with the dog, while assistance assails him with questions. Eisenstein is compelled to answer for an hour straight to a hundred questions. At the end, a lady declares: "You, sir, are shattering illusions of Russia." And Eisenstein promptly replied: "Illusions must always be shattered. The truth is the best ! " *
The difficulty of elaborating an answer, positive or negative, for the admissibility of a critique, in terms of what others think of you, is a challenged bared by any artist, by any optimizer of creative work, precisely in order to reach a common destination, a mutually acceptable agreement. In this case, the act of creation can be perceived as a catalyst of thoughts that gives you the ability to materialize a vision full of originality, those thoughts that highlight the truths of an image that gains weight only through an abstract idea, or through a comparison with how you use a metaphor.
The answer to the question that opens you up towards seeking an essential and powerful truth – another string on the bow that launches the arrows of lenient irony, allows the introduction of a particularity of your nature as an artist in terms of a consistent reporting to what must defend concerning your accomplishments, and not what it is imputed to you as guilt.
All the answers that those around you are waiting for, to accompany the logical mobility of a thinking conditioned by professional experience, need to respect the conventions specific to the phenomenon of "See yourself as a masterpiece in the making ! "
Otherwise, the force of your whole belief vis-à-vis the integrity of your own system of ideas and beliefs, or referring to the representativeness of research in time, often expressed through a truth based on a certain concept thought of beforehand, will not be able to delimitate between what represents your right of launching a "revelation" and what represents and abuse against you.
A dominant quality of the one issuing various statements based on your own beliefs, in the position of a discoverer of truths, is that of not self-incriminating himself. Man is a raw or neutral content of information, built on needs and situations, with which others are not used to interacting with.
One of the particularities of an artist’s nature is reaching the perfect belief in a formula that needs to extend to other people, seeing the aspects it found in the virtue of a personal touch and of a noble cause: that of conceptualizing authentically the experience through which one has been, the training and development of their skills.
Man Between Illusions And Truth can be recognized after others’ moods who try to paralyze him through a lack of clarity over an entire discussion, be it by the incompleteness he manifests over what happens beyond their limited understanding.
* Note: Ion Barna - Eisenstein, Youth Publishing House, 1966.