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Famous Roland Barthes Quotes
“Where you are tender, you speak your plural.”
“The author enters into his own death, writing begins.”
“He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.”
“It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.”
“One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.”
“I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.”
“How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?”
“As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.”
“A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.”
“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
“The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.”
“...language is never innocent.”