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

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, whats left of them. – Roland Barthes

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Class
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. – Roland Barthes

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Knowledge
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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. – Roland Barthes

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Books
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Photography
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Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. – Author Unknown

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Photography

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. – Ansel Adams

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Photography

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. – Diane Arbus

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Photography

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Photography

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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. – Joseph Addison

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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. – Immanuel Kant

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Experience