Quote by Roland Barthes
The photographic image... is a message without a code. - Roland Ba

The photographic image… is a message without a code. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

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 words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes

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Language
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. – Roland Barthes

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Sports
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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local caf? to the speech at a formal dinner. – Roland Barthes

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Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. – Sam Abbel

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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. – Berenice Abbott

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The camera can photograph thought. – Dirk Bogarde

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Photography

A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both. – Author Unknown

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