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

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.

The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.

All films are born free and equal.

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

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