"Painting can feign reality without having seen it." — Roland Barthes
"Painting can feign reality without having seen it."
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Roland Barthes
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122 Quotes by Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes has 122 quotes on this site.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been…
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious…
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More Feign Quotes
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one of 32 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
— Sun Tzu
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All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that…
— Sun Tzu
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I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous…
— Corey Taylor
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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
— Cato the Elder
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My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my…
— Thom Yorke
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Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement…
— Frank Medlicott
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If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction…
— Ward Churchill
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It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all…
— Peter Thiel
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
— Juan Goytisolo
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