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.

Quote by Roland Barthes

Topics: Roland Barthes Quotes

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

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

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

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

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

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

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

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness...

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness...

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is...

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is...

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that...

Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that...

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which...

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which...

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

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

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

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

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices,...

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices,...

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new...

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new...

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

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

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

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

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

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

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of...

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of...