“To see someone who does not see is the best way to be intensely aware of what he does not see.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. — Roland Barthes Emotion Copy Share Image
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. — Roland Barthes Architecture Copy Share Image
The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits. — Roland Barthes Identity Copy Share Image
“To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".” — Roland Barthes Nature of man Copy Share Image
The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being:… — Roland Barthes Amorous Copy Share Image
“Painting can feign reality without having seen it. Discourse combines signs which have referents, of course, but these referents can be and… — Roland Barthes Artist Copy Share Image
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Like man himself, who is the only one not to know his own glance, the [Eiffel] Tower is the only blind point… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“To instil into the Established Order the complacent portrayal of its drawbacks has nowadays become a paradoxical but incontrovertible means of exalting… — Roland Barthes Paradoxical Copy Share Image
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science… — Roland Barthes Bliss Copy Share Image
Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than… — Roland Barthes Climate Copy Share Image
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People… — Roland Barthes God Copy Share Image
“Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas;… — Roland Barthes Happiness Copy Share Image
I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from… — Roland Barthes Advent Copy Share Image
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of… — Roland Barthes Architecture Copy Share Image
“Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning… — Roland Barthes Language Copy Share Image
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Po mome ukusu, ništa nije indiskretnije od posmatranja nekog dok piše: još je indiskretnije videti nekog da čita jedva primetno mičući usnama.… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me,… — Roland Barthes Body Copy Share Image
“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is… — Roland Barthes Dictionary Copy Share Image
“I cannot write myself. What, after all, is this "I" who would write himself? Even as he would enter into the writing,… — Roland Barthes Suffering Copy Share Image
“Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open to reflection… — Roland Barthes Data Copy Share Image
“Besides intercourse (when the Image-repertoire goes to the devil), there is that other embrace, which is a motionless cradling: we are enchanted,… — Roland Barthes Incestuous Copy Share Image
“Meanings can indeed be forgotten, but only if we have chosen to bring to bear upon the text a singular scrutiny. Yet… — Roland Barthes Forgetting Copy Share Image
“In wrestling, nothing exists unless it exists totally, there is no symbol, no allusion, everything is given exhaustively; leaving nothing in shadow,… — Roland Barthes Nature Copy Share Image
“What is the use of composing if it is to confine the product within the precinct of the concert or the solitude… — Roland Barthes Art Copy Share Image
“Werther identifies himself with the madman, with the footman. As a reader, I can identify myself with Werther. Historically, thousands of subjects… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
“I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the camera),… — Roland Barthes Photography Copy Share Image
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