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Inspirational Quotes by Roland Barthes
- A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
- I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
- The photographic image... is a message without a code.
- Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
- Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
- Literature is the question minus the answer.
- The necessary condition for an image is sight,
- Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
- The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
- Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions
- Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
- To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.
- Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
- Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
- Why is it better to last than to burn?
- Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.
- A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
- Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
- I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
- ...language is never innocent.
- What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
- Every exploration is an appropriation.
- Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.
- It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
- …the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento