Barthes Camera Quotes & Sayings

How clear one's own desires become once they are made impossible. — Cornelia Funke

What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self? — Henry James

When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe ... When you can't do anything, let God do it all. — James MacDonald

People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'. — Arthur Marx

This shall be home, where danger was my cradle, and all we have learned will guard us! — Brian W. Aldiss

We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public. — Glenn Miller

You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it." It's an easy way to escape responsibility. — Ice Cube

A Titus Andronicus catalog of threats beat at the door. They haunt my nightmares still. — David Mitchell

There was an especially deep bond between the eldest and the youngest. Enza and Stella were the beginning and end, the alpha and omega, the bookends that held all the family stories from start to finish as well as the various shades and hues of personality and temperament. — Adriana Trigiani

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

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself. — Uta Hagen