Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
ROLAND BARTHESThe 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.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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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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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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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 photographic image is a message without a code.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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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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