Quotes by : Roland Barthes

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme....

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness;....

Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure.

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents....

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the....

Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where....

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not....

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone....

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