Andre Bazin Quotes

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

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

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

All films are born free and equal.

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

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

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