Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Roland Barthes Quotes

French - Critic | November 12, 1915 - March 26, 1980

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Man Street Skyscraper Block Offers

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.

Love Love Is Language Too Much Try

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Live Truth Time Sarcasm May Well

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.

Words Language Skin Desire Against

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Day Society Present Escape Way Left

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature Question Answer Minus

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

Nature Morality Steak Eat Rare Both

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Image Without Message Code

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.

Power Language Speech Forget See

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

Knowledge World Image Through

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

Invisible Always See Photograph

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

Life Fun Professional Pretty Been

12 Next page Last

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Roland Barthes quotes