Quotes by : Roland Barthes

…This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the “subject” (since Christianity)....

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning....

The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed....

...The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész'a photographs when he arrived in the United States in 1937....

If I like a photograph, if it disturbs me, I linger over it. What am I doing, during the whole times....

...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions....

For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must....

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

(Love’s atopia, characteristic which causes it to escape all dissertations, would be that *ultimately*....