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… — Andre Bazin Copy Share
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
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… — Andre Bazin Copy Share
A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
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… — Andre Bazin Copy Share
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness. — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
![“The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.” quote by Andre Bazin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/40f/andre-bazin-36481_casts_the-photographer-proceeds-via-the-interm_2133426.jpg)
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