Roland Barthes quotes

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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped sho ...
To eat steak rare ... represents both a nature and a morality.
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my w ...
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
The photographic image ... is a message without a code.
Ensnared in his starvation, Chaplin-man is always just below political awareness. A strike is a catastrophe for him because it thr ...
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignobl ...
To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even ...
A language is therefore a horizon, and style a vertical dimension, which together map out for the writer a Nature, since he does n ...
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