[The photograph] is the object itself. . . [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its … - Andre Bazin

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We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

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 reproduction; it is the model.

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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 on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist

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

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

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

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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 nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.

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