What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
From Roland Barthes
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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.
The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
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