Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
ROLAND BARTHESTo try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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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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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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We 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.
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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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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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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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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The 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.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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