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 '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

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

All films are born free and equal.

- 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 in time, because it is founded o…

- 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