Roland Barthes Quotes & Sayings

“There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.”

“A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.”

“The photographic image... is a message without a code.”

“Literature is the question minus the answer.”

“Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.”

“What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.”

“I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.”

“The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.”

“The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.”

“To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.”