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.
ROLAND BARTHESGreat portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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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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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
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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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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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