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

All films are born free and equal..

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

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

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

[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 reprod….

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

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 remai….

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 o….

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

A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irra….

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

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