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

All films are born free and equal.

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

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

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

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 psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.

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