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

Quote by Roland Barthes

Topics: Passion Quotes

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

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

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...

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,...

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

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

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

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,...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

I drink to forget I drink.

I drink to forget I drink.