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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

Roland Barthes

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
ROLAND BARTHES

Myself Painting Reality See
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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Death Ourselves Photography Return
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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Community Family Instrument Television
New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
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Abstraction Desert Height Man Reality
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
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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Art History Live Mutation Pleasure
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Mourning Myself Suffering
The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Forget Lover Memories Strain Time
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Bliss Image Knowledge Mythology World
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value

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