Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives; on the other hand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.