Roland Barthes was a famous Critic from France, who lived between November 12, 1915 and March 25, 1980. He/she became 64 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 20 quotes who is written / told by Roland.
20 Famous quotes by Roland Barthes
"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth"
"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire"
"The New is not a fashion, it is a value"
"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion"
"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"
"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"
"The photographic image... is a message without a code"
"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself"
"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning"
"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun"
"A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see"
"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man"
"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!"
"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"
"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it"
"Literature is the question minus the answer"
"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality"
"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula"
"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive"
"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient"
