One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
ROLAND BARTHESTouch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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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.
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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Literature 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.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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