Roland Barthes Quotes

I have not a desire but a need for solitude. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

— Roland Barthes

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an Roland Barthes Picture Quote

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an

— Roland Barthes

Contemporary poetry … tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Contemporary poetry … tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal,

— Roland Barthes

Am I in love? –yes, since I am waiting. The other one Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Am I in love? –yes, since I am waiting. The other one

— Roland Barthes

The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, Roland Barthes Picture Quote

The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time,

— Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

— Roland Barthes

Every exploration is an appropriation. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Every exploration is an appropriation.

— Roland Barthes

Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice

— Roland Barthes

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

— Roland Barthes

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of

— Roland Barthes

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for

— Roland Barthes

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist:

— Roland Barthes

L’amoureux qui n’oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce’ s, fatigue et tension Roland Barthes Picture Quote

L’amoureux qui n’oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce’ s, fatigue et tension

— Roland Barthes

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the Roland Barthes Picture Quote

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the

— Roland Barthes

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

— Roland Barthes

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

— Roland Barthes

The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever Roland Barthes Picture Quote

The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever

— Roland Barthes

I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the Roland Barthes Picture Quote

I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the

— Roland Barthes

The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or Roland Barthes Picture Quote

The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or

— Roland Barthes

New York… is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of Roland Barthes Picture Quote

New York… is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of

— Roland Barthes

We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.

— Roland Barthes

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.

— Roland Barthes

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular Roland Barthes Picture Quote

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular

— Roland Barthes

Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures.

— Roland Barthes

The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it Roland Barthes Picture Quote

The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it

— Roland Barthes

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that

— Roland Barthes

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

— Roland Barthes

Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis,

— Roland Barthes

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well,

— Roland Barthes

Painting can feign reality without having seen it. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not

— Roland Barthes

Every photograph is a certificate of presence. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Every photograph is a certificate of presence.

— Roland Barthes

Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do

— Roland Barthes

Ensnared in his starvation, Chaplin-man is always just below political awareness. A Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Ensnared in his starvation, Chaplin-man is always just below political awareness. A

— Roland Barthes

The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because Roland Barthes Picture Quote

The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because

— Roland Barthes

Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce’ ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene. Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce’ ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.

— Roland Barthes

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the

— Roland Barthes

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the Roland Barthes Picture Quote

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the

— Roland Barthes

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to Roland Barthes Picture Quote

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to

— Roland Barthes

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we Roland Barthes Picture Quote

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we

— Roland Barthes

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