Roland Barthes Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being.
I can't get to know you" means "I shall never know what you really think of me." I cannot decipher you because I do not know how you decipher me.
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition ... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
Isn't the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language - the amorous language? No more 'I love you's.
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?
I live in my suffering and that makes me happy.
Anything that keeps me from living in my suffering is unbearable to me.
Anything that keeps me from living in my suffering is unbearable to me.
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
In the sentence "She's no longer suffering," to what, to whom does "she" refer? What does that present tense mean?
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.