The photographic image is a message without a code.
ROLAND BARTHESA photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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