Construction Quote by Roland Barthes Download Open image “Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions” — Roland Barthes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Construction Symbolic Wells
For me, then, territory and movement are linked. For instance, territory is controlled by the movements of horsemen, of tanks, of planes, and so… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“Symbolism is the science of understanding the relations between the multiple levels of reality.” — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“My past has its space, its paths, its nameplaces, and its monuments. Beneath the crossed but distinct orders of succession and simultaneity, beneath the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“True symbolism depends on the fact that things, which may differ from one another in time, space, material nature, and many other limitative characteristics,… — Titus Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty,… — Max Bill Copy Share Image
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
“There was a time when wen we did not form all our words as we do now, in writing on a page. There was… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The more deeply we perceive, the more striking becomes the evidence that a uniform plan links every form in manifold nature.” — Paramahansa Yogananda 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
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which is always… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . .… — Giacomo Puccini Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake! — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Seoul will strictly limit the total greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and expand the construction of zero-energy buildings. — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Over 275,000 people had signed to end the construction of the TMT telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) by week 20 of the protest.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image