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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

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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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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Other Quotes from
Photography
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. – Ansel Adams

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Photography

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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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

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

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Photography

Random Quotes

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial… his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does. – Georg Baselitz

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Attitude

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish. – Barbara Smith

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Faith

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. – Henry Louis Gates

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History

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. – Henry Rollins

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alone