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Image Quotes by Roland Barthes
- The photographic image... is a message without a code.
- The necessary condition for an image is sight,
- 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…
- 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…
- Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
- 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…
- 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…
- But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you…
- Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The…
- 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…
- The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very…
- What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
More Image Quotes
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. — Francis Bacon
- Science is but an image of the truth. — Francis Bacon
- There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. — Tyra Banks
- China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals. — Brigitte Bardot
- I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless.… — Drew Barrymore
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. — Mortimer Adler