Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
ROLAND BARTHESThe text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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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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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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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 photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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