Category - Roland Barthes

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Roland Barthes

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

– Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

– Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

– Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

The photographic image… is a message without a code.

– Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.

– Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

– Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

– Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

– Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

– Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

– Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

– Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

– Roland Barthes

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