"What the public wants is the image of……" — Roland Barthes
"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."
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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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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode…
— Aristotle
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they…
— Teresa of Avila
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
— Francis Bacon
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Science is but an image of the truth.
— Francis Bacon
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
— Ansel Adams
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
— Tyra Banks
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China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless…
— Drew Barrymore
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of…
— Mortimer Adler
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