Referent Quotes
- Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace… — Jean Baudrillard
- With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference. — Ravi Zacharias
- 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… — Roland Barthes
- 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;… — Roland Barthes
- 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… — Roland Barthes