Description Quote by Roland Barthes Download Open image “A picture is never anything but its own plural description.” — Roland Barthes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Description Funny Inspirational Love
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something. — Robert Heinecken Copy Share Image
“A picture, after all, is just a symbol, a metaphor for something that cannot be translated.” — Shelan Rodger Copy Share Image
All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name. — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
When an image is said to be singular, it is meant that it is absolutely determinate in all respects. Every possible character, or the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
“Werther identifies himself with the madman, with the footman. As a reader, I can identify myself with Werther. Historically, thousands of subjects have done… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas; how many… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, once my bad temper… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the… — George Grey Copy Share Image
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they… — John Cleveland Copy Share Image
