Andre Bazin

All films are born free and equal.

— Andre Bazin

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

— Andre Bazin

Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set…

— Andre Bazin

A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will…

— Andre Bazin

How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power.…

— Andre Bazin

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

— Andre Bazin

The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it…

— Andre Bazin

The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But]…

— Andre Bazin

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

— Andre Bazin

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model…

— Andre Bazin

All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like…

— Andre Bazin

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

— Andre Bazin

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

— Andre Bazin