As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
ROLAND BARTHESWe 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.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
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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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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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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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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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