The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
ROLAND BARTHESThe photographic image is a message without a code.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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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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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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To 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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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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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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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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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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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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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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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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