"It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel"
― Roland Barthes
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"Painting can feign reality without having seen it."
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"Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being."
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"What love lays bare in me is energy."
― Roland Barthes |
"The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity'
of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity."
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"The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations."
― Roland Barthes |
Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot or will not achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional.."
― Roland Barthes
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"I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one."
― Roland Barthes
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"We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us."
― Roland Barthes
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"A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see."
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"To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought.."
― Roland Barthes
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"Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language."
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"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."
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"The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author."
― Roland Barthes
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"Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen to another just for the pleasure of it. I try out new ones. I have far too many pens - I don't know what to do with all of them! And yet, as soon as I see a new one, I start craving it. I cannot keep myself from buying them."
― Roland Barthes
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
― Roland Barthes
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Nationality: French |
Born:November 12, 1915, Cherbourg- Octeville, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France
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Famous As:
Philosopher,Literary Theorist,Essayist, , Critic, and Semiotician
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