Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
ROLAND BARTHESGreat portrait photographers are great mythologists.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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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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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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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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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 haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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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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