Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. Roland Barthes More Quotes by Roland Barthes More Quotes From Roland Barthes Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. Roland Barthes myth confession lying The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. Roland Barthes symptoms incapacity names As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound. Roland Barthes theme photography wanted Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions Roland Barthes symbolic construction wells I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun. Roland Barthes eclectic eclectic-style fun For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life. Contemporary with the withdrawal of rites, Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death. Roland Barthes withdrawal photography trying It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel Roland Barthes novel character Le toucher est le plus de mystificateur de tous les sens, a' la diffe rence de la vue, qui est le plus magique. Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical. Roland Barthes plus different sight It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental. Roland Barthes sentimental Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text. Roland Barthes source guests reading Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s. Roland Barthes mourning love-you facts One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking. Roland Barthes seven tongue mouths For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood. Roland Barthes cameras technique sound The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art. Roland Barthes photography past art Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is. Roland Barthes speak writing What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. Roland Barthes sarcastic truth time Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood. Roland Barthes woods cameras sound I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. Roland Barthes busy games trying Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly. Roland Barthes social-values photography age Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. Roland Barthes motto mad writing
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