Roland Barthes Quotes

Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

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

If I like a photograph, if it disturbs me, I linger over it. What am I doing, during the whole times I remain with it? I look at it, I scrutinize it, as if I wanted to know more about the thing or the person it represents... I want to outline the loved face by thought, to make it into the unique field of an intense observation; I want to enlarge this face in order to see it better, to understand it better, to know its truth.

The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not)...

It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good historical scenes: for it is culturally (this connotation is present in studium) that I participate in the figures, the faces, the gestures, the settings, the actions.