Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
ROLAND BARTHESIs not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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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.
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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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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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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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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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