English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Roland Barthes Quotes

I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the camera), and that this gesture is therefore perfect when it is performed unbeknownst to the subject being photographed. From this gesture derive all photographs whose principle (or better whose alibi) is “shock”; for the photographic “shock” consists less in traumatizing than in revealing what was so well hidden that the actor himself was unaware or unconscious of it.

Roland Barthes

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

I know that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever. Nicholas Sparks
Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away. Ivan Turgenev
Thomas Mann quote: "He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable..."
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word. Thomas Mann
Walter de La Mare quote: "Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers."
Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers. Walter de La Mare
To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around. David Canary
I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work. Jodie Foster
So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed. Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Trisha Goddard quote: "I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having..."
I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now. Trisha Goddard
Paulo Coelho quote: "How the path was forged"
How the path was forged Paulo Coelho
He's got _go_, anyhow.' Certainly, he's got go,' said Gudrun. 'In fact I've never seen a man that showed signs of so much. The unfortunate thing is, where does his _go_ go to, what becomes of it? David Herbert Lawrence
I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive. Lars von Trier
Jean Baudrillard quote: "It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced..."
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. Jean Baudrillard
Victor Hugo quote: "Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe."
Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe. Victor Hugo
Sydney J. Harris quote: "People who think they're generous to a fault usually think..."
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault. Sydney J. Harris
We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. Newt Gingrich