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Letter "R" » Roland Barthes Quotes
«What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.»
«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.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
confront, excessive, hysteria, impoverish, impoverished, impoverishing, muck, mucked, muck about, region, region of, too little, written language
«To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
active, address, excess, hiding, inconceivable, in essence, I Want You, message, one and the same, paradox, resolve, The Message, totally
«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.»
«Literature is the question minus the answer.»
«Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.»
«A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
«The photographic image... is a message without a code.»
«The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
bastard, films, humiliate, humiliated, item, items, programs, repetition
«I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.»
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