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

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...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

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...

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending...

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if...

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

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

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...

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,...

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

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

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

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

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

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

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

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...