A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
ROLAND BARTHESA light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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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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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
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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 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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