How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
ROLAND BARTHESLanguage is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not–this is the beginning of writing.
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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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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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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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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