Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
ROLAND BARTHESThe book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
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