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

Quote by Roland Barthes

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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.

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life,...

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life,...

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

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...

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

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...

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

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...

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long...

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long...

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...