A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
ROLAND BARTHESA picture is never anything but its own plural description.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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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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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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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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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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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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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 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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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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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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