Best Roland Barthes Quotations
- This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival. Absence
- What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. Existentially
- It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart… According
- I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder:… Advent
- For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related… Bells
- In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The… Acme
- Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The… Best
- When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that… Anesthetized
- It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the… All
- Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice of banality (to say what everyone sees and knows) and the voice of… All
- For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object… Absolute
- The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here;… Body
- The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it… Call
- Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the… Age
- The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very… Becomes
- Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque… Always Dream
- Every exploration is an appropriation. Appropriation
- Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no… Appearance
- Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who… Ahead
- Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Destruction
- As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face… Audrey
- To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved… Able
- Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. Bereavement
- All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of… Actuality
- Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth. Choke
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