As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
ROLAND BARTHES
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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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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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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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 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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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 am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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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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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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