How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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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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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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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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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.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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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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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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