Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Bartheswas a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design theory, anthropology and post-structuralism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth12 November 1915
CountryFrance
Roland Barthes quotes about
love writing hysteria
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
language innocent
...language is never innocent.
erotic body glimpse
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
crazy jealous men
As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.
photograph certificates
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
society way retreat
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
fun eclectic-style eclectic
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
photography infinity photograph
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
energy lays
What love lays bare in me is energy.
understanding literature trouble
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
kissing body add
To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
names incapacity symptoms
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
photography invisible photograph
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
hero essence dry
Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.