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

[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.

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

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

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.

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

All films are born free and equal.