The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“The whole gestural system of work was also obscene, in sharp contrast to the miniaturized and abstract gestural system of control to which it… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
![“Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we…” quote by Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b6b/jean-baudrillard-1500_anticipate_fiction-is-not-imagination-it-is-what-an_612824.jpg)
