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…

- Andre Bazin

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…

- Andre Bazin

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…

- Andre Bazin

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

- Andre Bazin

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

- Andre Bazin

All films are born free and equal.

- Andre Bazin

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…

- Andre Bazin

[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…

- Andre Bazin

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…

- Andre Bazin