Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
ROLAND BARTHESThe haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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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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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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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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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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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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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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Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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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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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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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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