338 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.

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

è sterile ricondurre l’opera a qualcosa di puramente esplicito, perché allora non c’è, immediatamente, più nulla da dirne e perché la funzione dell’opera non può consistere nel chiudere le labbra di coloro che la leggono

...photography is an ellipse of language and a condensation of an ‘ineffable’ society...

La littérature ne permet pas de marcher, mais elle permet de respirer.

Miseries of a birth.

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

Where there is a wound, there is a subject.

What is a hero? The one who has the last word. Can we think of a hero who does not speak before dying?