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Object Quotes by Roland Barthes
- The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and…
- 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…
- Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two…
- 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…
- 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…
More Object Quotes
- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from… — Ben Hecht
- The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment,… — Edward Weston
- The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what… — A. A. Gill
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant