The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

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Literature is the question minus the answer.

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

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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Roland Barthes in "Myth Today: Reading and Deciphering Myth," Mythologies
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

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

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

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

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

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

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