Best Roland Barthes Quotes
- 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… Absent
- For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never,… Arms
- Every photograph is a certificate of presence. Certificate
- To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin. Add
- The new is not a fashion, it is a value. Fashion
- I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with… Appropriates
- The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. Block
- Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a… Both
- Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions Construction
- 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… Cameras
- 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! Child
- Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body? Anthem
- Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? Affords
- Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere. Everywhere
- I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my… Any
- 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… Abolishes
- The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for… Amorous
- To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality. Both
- Great portrait photographers are great mythologists. Great
- Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. Blissfully
- The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me… Ariadne
- For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this… Abrupt
- Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a… Achieve
- One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is… According
- Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. Communal
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