Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
ROLAND BARTHESIs not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
ROLAND BARTHESTo try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
ROLAND BARTHESThe birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
ROLAND BARTHESIn front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
ROLAND BARTHESEvery photograph is a certificate of presence.
ROLAND BARTHESThere is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
ROLAND BARTHESWhat love lays bare in me is energy.
ROLAND BARTHESThe text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
ROLAND BARTHESThe lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
ROLAND BARTHESA picture is never anything but its own plural description.
ROLAND BARTHESThe best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
ROLAND BARTHESWhereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
ROLAND BARTHESWhy is it better to last than to burn?
ROLAND BARTHESWhat the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
ROLAND BARTHESLiterature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
ROLAND BARTHESAs Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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